Clive Davis Quotes
Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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I feel that when you take the responsibility to host something, it is your job to make sure that all your guests are taken care of equally.
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The fact is, 'Billy Elliot' is an incredible show, for any age and any gender. 'Degrassi' fans would absolutely fall in love with 'Billy Elliot.'
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You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.
