Crash Davis Quotes
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much-discussed couplet:
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As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.
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Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am - trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature - then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.
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I go - as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.
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There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Those ethical choices often are made every day at a time, minute by minute in ways that you may not even relate to ethics, so I'm going to walk them through the whole story from that perspective and hopefully they'll be able to walk away with something good from it.
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Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.
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No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -
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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
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I'll go where secrets are sold Where roses unfold I'll sleep as time goes by
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The rose goes in the front, big guy.
