Ray Davies Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
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Free Tibet before free trade.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.
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What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.
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All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
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Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
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In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.
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We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.
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You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won't work. The first thing you have to have is belief.
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When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling.
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But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.
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It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.
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I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.
