Essie Davis Quotes
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I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."
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The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
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Long after the actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.
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I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.
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Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.
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I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.
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All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
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Personally I was just sick of the mimicry of American culture that was going on because it wasn't natural for us. We had grown up listening to reggae music in our communities. People were enjoying what we were doing with out music - we didn't have to work to sell it to them.
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The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.
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Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.
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When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.
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I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.
