Kristin Davis Quotes
If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
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If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.
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I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. Buddhism teaches prajna (understanding as against superstition and supernaturalism), karuna (love), and samara (equality). This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.
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There's no such thing, like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans.
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As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I'm still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I'm going to see things. They're not going to see what I see. So it's being able to translate that and help them see what I'm seeing.
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Can't write worrying what the Internet's going to think.
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The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.
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In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.
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In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.
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If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.
