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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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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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
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It was OK, us being Reds during the war, because we were all on the same side. But then the Cold War started. Almost overnight we became enemies of people who were close friends - they crossed the street to avoid us.
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Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.
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On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.
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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by 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.
