Essie Davis Quotes
I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
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Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
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I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.
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Execution is everything.
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We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!
Garry Kasparov -
I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.
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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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The land of the living was not far removed from the domain of the ancestors. There was coming and going between them, especially at festivals and also when an old man died, because an old man was very close to the ancestors. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
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I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.
