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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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
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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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When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
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My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.
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I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a little nervous. I usually have bursts of poems. Five or six come together and then I slack off and want to do something else.
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They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.
