Essie Davis Quotes

I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be awful. I'm a pretty shy person, really.

Essie Davis

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• Don't Know
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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

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• I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.

  

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• It's up to the audience. It always has been.

  

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• I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

  

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• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

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• Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

  

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• There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

  

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• You are never really prepared for criticism.

  

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• An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

  

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• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

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• London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.

  

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• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

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• A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.

  

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• I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

  

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• Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

  

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• I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

  

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• In so many ways, our business is very, very unique. For example, in India, people pay with cash, and we accept cash from day one. And a lot of people in India pay with cash. And that's part of our business model.

  

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• My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

  

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• Certainly in the case of 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' if it makes children or adults a little more interested in Shakespeare, there's nothing wrong with that!

  

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• There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.

  

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• I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be awful. I'm a pretty shy person, really.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Pretty
  • Street
  • Don't Know