Essie Davis Quotes

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

Essie Davis

• Grown-Up
• Not Think
• Being A Mom

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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.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Habit

• No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.

  

  William Golding
  • Humans
  • Cost
  • Endeavour

• 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."

  

  Alex Abreu
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Told

• The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Evidence

• Long after the actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Escape
  • Event
  • Signals

• 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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Enemy
  • Path

• 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.

  

  Paul Eenhoorn
  • Job
  • Playing
  • Scene

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Bizarre
  • Grown-Up

• Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Life
  • Wanted
  • Motherhood

• I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Not
  • Grown-Up
  • Matured

• All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

  

  Rumi
  • People
  • Children
  • Planet

• Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.

  

  Art Carney
  • Life
  • Age
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Arthur Danto
  • Love
  • Story
  • Happily

• 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.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Important
  • Challenge
  • Successful

• Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Process

• The mind approves and the body consents.

  

  Nelly Mazloum
  • Dance
  • Consent

• I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Grown-Up
  • Not Think
  • Being A Mom