Mackenzie Davis Quotes

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

Mackenzie Davis

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• On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Will
  • Rights

• Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Day

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Men
  • Singing
  • Gold

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Looks
  • Constitution
  • Union

• Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • History
  • Growing

• It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Christian
  • Difficult
  • Islamic

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Career
  • Me
  • Path

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sense
  • Proportion
  • Realised

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Nature
  • Friend

• History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Strong