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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I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.
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A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after – the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and she his queen, they have their children, she conducts discreet affairs with Sir Lancelot, there are border uprisings...but still the story ended when the love toward which their destinies drove them came to mutual consciousness when they knew, each knowing the other knew, that they were meant for each other.
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
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I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.
