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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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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Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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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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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.
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No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
