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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Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
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Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.
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It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.