Ray Davies Quotes
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
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Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.
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My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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Soon' in the whiskey world is kind of relative. Everything for us is years and years down the road.
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I am to talk about Apologetics. Apologetics means of course Defence. The first question is - what do you propose to defend? Christianity, of course...
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Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
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No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
