Essie Davis Quotes

There's something great about being on location with a bunch of people - there's a camaraderie and intimacy that builds up over time.

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• Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
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  • Know
  • Mom

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Art
  • Happiness

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Nature
  • Man

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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  • American
  • History

• Free love sounds great.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Free

• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

  

  Samuel Barber
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  • Believe
  • Style

• I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

  

  Larry David
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  • Money
  • Living

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
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  • Reality
  • Military

• My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

  

  Sally Phillips
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  • Why

• Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  

  Fay Godwin
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  • Country
  • Try

• People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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  • Great
  • Live

• When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
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  • Different
  • Women

• The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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  • Leader
  • Conflict

• Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
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  • Great
  • Enjoy Life

• The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
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  • Church
  • Determination

• I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

  

  Patsy Kensit
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  • Mother
  • Brother

• partition of Ireland, ... the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

  

  James Connolly
  • Democracy
  • Progress
  • Unity

• I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • God
  • Kids

• I'm not interested in being liked.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Interested
  • Liked

• Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

  

  Joichi Ito
  • Power
  • Democracy

• There's something great about being on location with a bunch of people - there's a camaraderie and intimacy that builds up over time.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Great
  • Intimacy
  • Location