Geena Davis Quotes
We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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The closest person in the industry to me who is like a big brother is Tyrese. He gives me a lot of good advice. We both do the same things. We're both from the same background.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
