Essie Davis Quotes
I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
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I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.
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I really had to figure out who I was and be confident in my own skin. Now I've done that, and I'm very happy in a relationship.
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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
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I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.
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If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night
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I hate this expression, but - "thinking outside the box," in terms of how to market and put a Broadway show out into the - allow it to reach the target audience, who can't necessarily spend $120 to come see it.
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Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.
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I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.
