Dave Alvin Quotes
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
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My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
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Schooling is so important.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
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Music proposes. Sound disposes.
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There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
