Essie Davis Quotes
There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to scratch.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I am a Buddhist.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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Seth reached forward for the crackers. Dad, driving, asked for some Almond Roca. Last Christmas he had decided that Almond Roca was his favorite candy and that he should have some on hand all year long. Nearly six months later he was still honoring his resolution.
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I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.
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There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to scratch.
