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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• 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.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Angst

• I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Choice
  • Grace

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Strong
  • City
  • New York

• The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Together
  • Effort

• 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.

  

  Gary McCord
  • World
  • Different
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• I don't think you should limit what you read.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • You
  • Limit

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Work
  • American

• 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.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Question
  • Person
  • Everyone

• 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.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • Career
  • Question

• In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

  

  Ira Glass
  • You
  • Daily
  • Journalism

• I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Environment
  • Just
  • Handle

• 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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • America
  • Community
  • New York

• All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • World
  • Play
  • Violence

• Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Always

• I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration.” He stroked her hair soothingly. “You will never be a millstone about my neck. Rather you're the sunshine that brightens my day.” He swallowed. “Don't you see? You brought me into the daylight. You've embraced parts of me that I was never able to let see light. Don't make me retreat again into the night.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Night
  • Hair
  • Winter

• 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.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Play
  • Choice
  • My Career