William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
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I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.
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Grafenwalder shoots a sidelong glance at Ursula Goodglass, wondering what their marriage must be like. Clearly sex isn’t in the cards, but he doubts that it was ever the main interest in their lives. Games, especially those of prestige and subterfuge, are amongst the chief entertainments of the Rust Belt moneyed.
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I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.
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The assembled souls of all that men held wise.
