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.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Feel
  • First Time

• 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.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Hope
  • Always

• 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.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Family
  • Business
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
  • Rich
  • Concentration

• Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Me
  • Better

• You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grow

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Taste

• 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.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• 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.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Think

• I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Women
  • Working
  • Directors

• Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • You
  • Wish

• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Book
  • Fear
  • Down

• If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Family
  • Matter
  • Find

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Death

• I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • School
  • City

• Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Someday

• Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Character

• A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Life
  • Character
  • Pickup