Anthony Davis Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I don't care about revenues.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
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I was really a little housewife with two small children, and I had a husband who really didn't want his wife to work. He didn't like the competition. That's why I'm not married to him anymore.
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If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.
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I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.
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All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
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I have to be a father first and a husband first.
