Davinia Taylor Quotes
There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.
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Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.
