Ray Davies Quotes
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.
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Don't worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable - and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
