Tamra Davis Quotes
My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
