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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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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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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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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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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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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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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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
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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.
