Barry Davies Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
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What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.
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When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.
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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
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Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.
