Davy Jones Quotes
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
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Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
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Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.1
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Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.
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Painting, literature, music, are more closely allied than the public usually admit. They are merely different means of expression.
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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
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I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.
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I am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man.
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There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
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This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.
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It seemed that my brother and I were always fighting in the back seat, and there was never any real reason for it.
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Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.
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I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.
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Love life more than the meaning of it?
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I suppose I ought to describe my father, but it isn't easy. Sometimes over the years he seemed one thing and sometimes another. He was a good-looking man, strong and ruddy. When I was little he seemed tall to me, but by the time I was thirteen he had become medium.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...
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You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
