Essie Davis Quotes
I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
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Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.
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I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
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In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
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I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.
