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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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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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've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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There was such a hodgepodge of emotion. We're dealing with Woody's death, and all our heroes are showing up. It was sadness mixed with joy.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
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So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.
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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.
