Essie Davis Quotes
I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.
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It's fun. If I ever think, 'Oh God, I've got to go to work today,' I'd hang it up. Being involved with young kids, I think it definitely does do something for you. I'd rather do that than go play bingo or something.
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I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.
