Mackenzie Davis Quotes
I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.
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The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind.
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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
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I love Westerns!
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There is love inside this madness. We are walking on the moon. Though I don’t believe in magic, I believe in me and you.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
