Essie Davis Quotes
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.
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The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
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When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
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Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.
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I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
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I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.
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My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'
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A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.
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I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
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Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
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I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.
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The thing about acting is you have to wait to be asked to the dance.
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I got the pumps It aint got medicine
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I never spend more than a week away from the children.
