Fred Davis Quotes

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.

Fred Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: celebrity
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 13, 1913 - April 16, 1998

Topics

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One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

Jim Lehrer

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When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day.

Jerry Seinfeld

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When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.

Amish Tripathi

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My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

Sonny Bill Williams

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One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that other people like. So many times, people come up to me after a reading and say, 'You must have read this,' or 'You must have seen this,' or 'Do you listen to this?' Usually I haven't.

Steven Hall

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I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

Travis Tritt

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To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it explained to you at some sort of 'finishing school' where you could actually learn the laws of propriety and the skills of appearing well-adapted, easygoing and attractively trouble free. But where do you learn these things? I don't know.

Michael Leunig

SchoolFreeLearnYouPersonKnow

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Louis Aragon

DreamsMyselfYouNowBecomeReason

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Joschka Fischer

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There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.

Diana Gabaldon

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It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

Douglas Wilson

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I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

David Sedaris

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