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.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Serious
  • Capitalism
  • Toward

• I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • History
  • Know

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• 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.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Love
  • Support
  • Emotional

• There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • World
  • English

• 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.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Work
  • Desire

• If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Ask
  • Costs

• Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Literature
  • Point
  • Starting

• 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.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Man
  • Science
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Important
  • Question
  • Study

• If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Money
  • Think
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• 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.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• There's no such thing, like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

  

  Edward Young

• As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Work
  • Different
  • Business

• From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness, about what actually brings myself happiness.

  

  Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys

• We come from different backgrounds. Some people grow up with money in their pocket, or they have a certain last name; others have nothing. But it comes down to work ethic. That's where we all play on the same playing field.

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Kristin Davis