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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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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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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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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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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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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Though death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.
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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.
