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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.
To come back from injury to qualify my country for the Davis Cup final and then to win my third trophy, it means a lot.
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.
I was talking to a TV bigwig, and he said, 'Nobody under 35 knows who Sammy Davis is.' Well, you'll hear angry denials of that from younger people.
I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.
I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.
Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.
Of course, Mississippi participates in federal matching programs for everything from preserving the post-Civil War home of Jefferson Davis to beaver control.
I think my best friends are my team-mates in Davis Cup. We have been growing up together since we were 11 or 12.
You can't talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.
Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.
The Warriors team with Baron Davis, Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson - that was an incredible team.
And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.
Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.
Sammy Davis Jr. was a real movie buff who loved nothing better than being around a film studio - whether he was working or not.
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.
When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn't afford a ticket.
Lincoln Davis has supported Nancy Pelosi's anti-business, big government policies a disturbing 83% of the time.
I mean, I see the old interviews with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford, these characters clawed their way up - what stories.
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
To me, there are only a few tournaments that are important. The Grand Slams, Davis Cup, the Swedish Open; that's about it.
Greg Davis, Ron Randleman, David Bailiff, Paul Rhoads, Urban Meyer. I would be remiss if I didn't mention all of them as influences.
If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice.
Six months after I moved to L.A., I booked the ABC pilot 'Commander-in-Chief' with Geena Davis. I played her son.
I saw 'The Help' on DVD. I was blown away by Viola Davis: she really straddled that fine line in the plot between what was tragic and what was heart-warming.
Guys like Alvin Adams, Sweet D Walter Davis, Larry Nance, and Kyle Macy became my basketball heroes.
I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.
Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species.
Sean Davis is one of the best youngsters I've been around. He's got an old head on his shoulders and he's a very good player.
I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.
Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.
Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!
Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
All people of goodwill object to racial hatred. But no one cares that Billy Crystal darkened his skin to portray Sammy Davis Jr.
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.
I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.
Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song.
I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.
Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them
I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.
Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.
I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.
People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn't there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that.
There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"
When I see Steve Davis I see two letters... C S... Cue Sorceror.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
Davis Cup, you know, does take a lot out of you over the weekend. It's tough, especially if you play all three days.
Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
