Bruce Davison Quotes
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I am happy in Paris.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!
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In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).
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My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
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A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
