Luke Davies Quotes
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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When I was homeschooled, I fell so behind - months behind at school - because I'm not good at keeping up. And so I had to sit down for literally three weeks to a month and just do all of it. And it was not fun, and I didn't want to do it, but I had to.
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Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
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I knew Dave Raymond, who was the original Phillie Phanatic.
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If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don't want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?
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I'm really interested in people's decisions.
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I liked school. I was happy enough there, I think.
