Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes
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There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.
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The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
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I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
