Essie Davis Quotes

I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.

Essie Davis

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• Children
• Home
• Attention
• Demand

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• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Home
  • Mom
  • Walk

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Serious

• There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Women
  • Friends

• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Children
  • Why
  • Play

• I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Children
  • School
  • Safety

• The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Children
  • May
  • Power

• When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. It was in upstate New York where we had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Live
  • Children
  • Water

• I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Children
  • Now
  • Teenagers

• One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • World
  • Important
  • Home

• If we believe that it is predominantly men who batter women, it is hard to see why women also need to change: We will continue saying, 'Just change the men. They’re the batterers.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Children
  • Family
  • Home

• Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Children

• What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Up
  • Children
  • Legacy

• Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Focus

• We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Hope
  • Hurt
  • Dinner

• God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • God
  • Father

• I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Band

• Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Children
  • She
  • Hand

• I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Women
  • Children
  • Home