Mackenzie Davis Quotes

I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.

Mackenzie Davis

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  • Important
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• Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
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• However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

  

  Babasaheb
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• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

  Frances McDormand
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  • More
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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
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• I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Work
  • Smart

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
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• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
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• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
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• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Good
  • School
  • Resilience

• We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Giving
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• When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
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• At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Day
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• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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  • Man

• I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
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• I believe in free markets. I believe in free trade. I believe in creating the conditions that will allow that to happen. And if we do that, American companies are going to be pretty darn competitive.

  

  John S. Watson
  • Believe
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  • Pretty

• I have had people that I was doing some promotion stuff with go, 'You know, we had an idea. We should have, like, a legends fight.' It's always that. That conversation always comes up when we're talking about doing some promotion for a company or helping them promote their league.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • People
  • Up

• I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking