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 have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
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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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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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'He is dead,' we cried, and even amid that gloomThe wintry veil was rent! The new-born dayShowed us the Angel seated in the tombAnd the stone rolled away.
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I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.
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I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.
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I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.
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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.
