Essie Davis Quotes
I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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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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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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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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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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We have travelled far from the standpoint which identifies the real with the concrete. Even the older philosophy found it necessary to admit exceptions; for example, time must be admitted to be real, although no one could attribute to it a concrete nature.
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It was quite jarring to go from newspapers to magazines, and the reason I did it was because I had my second son, and with my second child, I just thought, 'I can't travel at will,' which you really need to be able to do. And so I had a sort of slow realization that I could no longer do the job that I loved.
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You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.
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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.
