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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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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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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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.
