Davy Jones Quotes
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
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Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn't really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.
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I always need to keep moving.
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Going out and volunteering sounds simple, but many people don't volunteer because they don't know where to start.
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I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.
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The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.
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As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
