Avram Davidson Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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It's easy to stereotype twins into any role. There's not a lot of great twin roles written, and oftentimes, when there are, they're given to a single actor who green screens themselves into both places.
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I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
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I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
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I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I made with my father, and it's emotional for me as well as a movie I'm proud of.
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I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.
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As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.
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I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
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China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.
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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
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And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
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Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.
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No greed was comparable to the appeal of self-sacrifice.
