Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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There are times I can't even figure myself out.
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There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
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I always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. I have always loved it. It's a very communal thing, and you really connect with people.
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It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.
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Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.
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There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.
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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
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I think the process of 'I Love It' becoming such a big song opened my eyes to sides of the industry that I'd never been aware of, which I wasn't so into.
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Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
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I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight.
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Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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They can't ban or burn Larkin's books. What they can embark on is the more genteel process of literary demotion.
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The middlebrow, I hate.
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If you hate me it is because I have morals.
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We can't sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.
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It was part of your religion to hate the British.
