Clive Davis Quotes
The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I'm easily entertained.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me like they know me, and it's like, 'You don't know me. You know my character, but you really don't know me.'
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.
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The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.
