Mackenzie Davis Quotes
I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.
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But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
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I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.
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If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.
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I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.
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I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
