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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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
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But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.
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I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
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Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.
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Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?
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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.
