Bruce Davison Quotes
Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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I went from never doing interviews to doing 10 in one day and standing in front of 60,000 fans. Now people look up to me, and I'm seeing little girls wearing my jersey.
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I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.
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If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.
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In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.
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Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
