Alexis Davis Quotes
I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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Are you in my dream too?
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The human experience is all about learning as much as yuh can…
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That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.
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I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.
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Politicians often say to me, 'Articles in the 'Observer' don't get me votes, but you get me money.'
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I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.
