Embeth Davidtz Quotes

I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.

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• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Science
  • Reading

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

  

  Dan Burton
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Dad

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Story

• To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Occupation
  • Siege

• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fault

• The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • View
  • Philosophical

• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Age
  • Army

• 'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Day

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Debt
  • Corrupt

• For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Why
  • American

• I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.

  

  Amanda Beard
  • Friends
  • Baby
  • Swimming

• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Serious
  • Child

• Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • People
  • Real
  • Today

• I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.

  

  Embeth Davidtz
  • Work
  • Alone