Essie Davis Quotes
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.
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I love dressing up.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas.
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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
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Acting is embarrassing.
