Jeremy Davies Quotes

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

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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

• The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Potential
  • Truth Is

• 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

• I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Funny
  • YouTube
  • Vlogs

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Power

• 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

• I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Best

• 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

• People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

  Alexander Chase
  • People

• The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Attitude
  • Pride
  • Humility

• Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

  

  William Whewell
  • Force
  • Lines
  • Fine

• Iraq has WMDs. It is not something we think, it is something we know. Iraq has itself admitted that it has had mustard gas, nerve gas, anthrax, but Saddam won't disclose. He won't tell us where and how these weapons have been destroyed. We know this from the UN inspectors, so there is no doubt in my mind.

  

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• Focus on what you have.

  

  Suze Orman
  • Focus
  • Have

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

  

  Jeremy Davies