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 religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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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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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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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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Finally, be kind to yourself and have a good support system.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.
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The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.
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Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.
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No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
