Mackenzie Davis Quotes
When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I love India.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.
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Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks.
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By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
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When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.
