Mackenzie Davis Quotes
I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.
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Faithful to the word given and the idea had. All else is up to God!
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Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
