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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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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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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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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Fuck a needle, here's a sword, body pierce with this.
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Misery Loves Company. SPIN Magazine (March 1993).
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Strepsiades: Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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I'm very conventional compared to my parents.
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Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions. (p. 402)
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
