Jeremy Davies Quotes

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.

Jeremy Davies

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• I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Book
  • Want

• America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Nation
  • Dictatorship

• I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Fun
  • Relationships
  • Mentor

• One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Film
  • Head

• I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Love
  • Range
  • Subtlety

• If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Purpose
  • Look

• You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • System
  • Connected

• And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Experience
  • Support
  • Vision

• New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Music
  • City

• I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Today
  • Poverty

• I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sorrow
  • Ground
  • Holy

• One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Miracle

• One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • English

• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • World
  • Home
  • Age

• Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an aptitude test in seventh grade - and this is 100 percent true - I took an aptitude test in seventh grade, and it said in my best profession was a clown or a mime.

  

  Michelle Wolf
  • Profession
  • Comedian
  • Percent

• The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Air
  • Made

• Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.

  

  Jeremy Davies