Essie Davis Quotes
As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Let us have peace.
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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The last thing I would do to this country is to even put my personal interests about the country's interest. I have never done that in my life, and I will never do it because I, you know, I was brought up as a very patriotic Egyptian, and this is not just going to happen.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
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The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodré. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
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For a date night with my girlfriend, we go to Zuma for Japanese.
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I've always found a cornucopia of roles open to me. Wait--did I just say cornucopia? I think I meant plethora.
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My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
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As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
