Bruce Davison Quotes
I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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When you're so consistent, people have to stand up and take notice. I don't think people recognise or praise consistency enough.
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Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.
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So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.
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Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.
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I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
