Essie Davis Quotes
I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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We thought about Thanksgiving, planned for Thanksgiving and talked of Thanksgiving for weeks beforehand, but the evening before the actual day was the best time of all. Then the house seethed with children and dogs, with friends and cooks, and with delightful smells of baking pie, turkey stuffing and coffee. Every time the doorbell rang we put on another pot of coffee and washed the cups and by the time we went to bed we were so nervous and flighty that when accidentally bumped or brushed against, we buzzed and lit up like pin-ball machines.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.
