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.

Essie Davis

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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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Happy
  • You

• To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

  

  Nas
  • Version
  • Owning
  • Creatively

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• 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.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Great
  • True

• 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.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• 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.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • President
  • Difficult

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • City
  • Yourself
  • Vegas

• Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Real
  • Real Life

• In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Hard
  • Novel
  • Keep

• David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Favorite
  • Director

• Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Single
  • Never
  • Human

• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Strength
  • Temptation

• I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Wear
  • Wigs

• The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Night
  • Saturday

• One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Important
  • Reading
  • Always

• We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Balance
  • Drugs
  • Middle-class

• I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Acting
  • Cheating
  • Writing Songs

• When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Person

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Actor
  • Wanted
  • Biologist