Davy Jones Quotes
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
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A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking match.
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The way to write well is to live intensely.
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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
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To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.
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Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall
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To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.
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I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
