Mackenzie Davis Quotes
As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
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I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it's fair punishment, that it's punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
