Jill Davis Quotes

I don't actually keep the dresses I've worn during other friends' weddings. Closets are small in New York City - I can't be squandering space on bridesmaid dresses.

Jill Davis

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

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• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

  Action Bronson
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• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

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• The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

  

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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.

  

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• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

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• It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

  

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• I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

  

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• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  

  Walt Alston
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• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
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• Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

  

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  

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• I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

  

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• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

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• Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

  

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• The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

  

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• Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.

  

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• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

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• I'm a very proud actor.

  

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  • Proud
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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  

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  • Women
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• I don't actually keep the dresses I've worn during other friends' weddings. Closets are small in New York City - I can't be squandering space on bridesmaid dresses.

  

  Jill Davis
  • Friends
  • Small
  • City