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.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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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.
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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 love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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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.
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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.
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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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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.
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Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand
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Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
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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.
