Mackenzie Davis Quotes
Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I was making love to my wife the other night, I looked up. She was on the phone.
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The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
