W. H. Davies Quotes

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

W. H. Davies

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• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

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• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  

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• Values are more important than money.

  

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• If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

  

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• People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

  

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• I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

  

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• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

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• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

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• I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

  

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• I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

  

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• When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Money
  • Friend