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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• 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.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Know
  • Succeed

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• 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.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Security
  • Calm
  • Overcome

• 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.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Communication

• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Trust
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Best
  • Honest
  • Discussions

• Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Build
  • Reputation
  • Lawyers

• The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Down
  • Direction
  • Spanish

• If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

  

  Ned Kelly
  • Life
  • Police
  • Madness

• First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Work
  • Books
  • Designer

• Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Sleep
  • Thoughts
  • King

• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Played

• Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • World
  • Place
  • Occupation

• 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.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Film
  • Books
  • I Love