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 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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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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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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I've been friends with Jaco Pastorius's son since 1996 - Johnny Pastorius, the eldest son. And I remember when I first met him, I said, 'Some day, you've gotta make a film about your father,' because his influence is so broad.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
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Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.
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I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.
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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.
