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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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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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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My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
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I have read articles. I don't need to go out there and keep saying it. The people that 'know boxing.' Everybody is out there saying it. But that's OK. I am going to go out there and shut everybody up.
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To actors on opening night: You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.
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I'm not going to stop going to the supermarket just because the paparazzi follow me. I love to cook and a cook needs her ingredients!
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.
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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.
