Essie Davis Quotes
One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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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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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
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What's the point of staying sober?
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Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
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I believe in spirits, not ghosts.
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Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.
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One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.
