Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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I'm not the kind of male who has to put my imprint on everything.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.
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I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.
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Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
