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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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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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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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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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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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
