Davinia Taylor Quotes
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I would like to direct.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.
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How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues, proportioned to no purpose. "It may well be imperfect," I say, "but it leaves traces. And we can follow those traces, like footsteps in the snow." "Where do the lead?" "To oneself," I answer. "That's where the mind is. Without the mind, nothing leads anywhere." I look up. The winter moon is brilliant, over the Town, above the Wall. "Not one thing is your fault," I comfort her.
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I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.
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I wish I'd heard about quickie divorce packs from Tesco's sooner.
