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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Woman
  • Fart

• 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.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Same
  • Situation
  • Turn

• 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.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Character
  • College

• In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • You
  • End
  • Afraid

• 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.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Good
  • Food
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • School
  • Serious
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• 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.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Opinion

• The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• 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.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Action
  • Doing
  • Direction

• 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.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Time
  • Man
  • Intelligence

• 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.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• For a date night with my girlfriend, we go to Zuma for Japanese.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Night
  • Girlfriend
  • Japanese

• I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Great

• The record business is changing a lot, and I don't think to the detriment of music - I think, if anything, it's helping music. It's to the detriment of the business in some aspects. In many ways, you might say this is not the time to be going back to the majors, it's the time to be leaving them, which is a good point.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Helping
  • Leaving

• Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

  

  Anna Lindh
  • Society

• In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

  

  Jonathan Krohn
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Book

• I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having to remember that they're gone.

  

  Charles Henry Mosley III Bad Brains
  • Done
  • Dream
  • Night

• When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

  

  Claire Shipman
  • Confidence
  • Lose
  • To Be

• 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.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Advice
  • Parent
  • Information