Mackenzie Davis Quotes
I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
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You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
