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

• 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

• 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 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

• Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Advice

• From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

  

  Logic
  • Water

• It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Done
  • Effort
  • Victory

• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Sometimes

• If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Good
  • Women
  • Bad

• The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Mind
  • Present

• Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Strength
  • Sufficient

• 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