Essie Davis Quotes
I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but I didn't see any possibility of me not going to NIDA. I believed in myself, and I believed that, if you really do want something, you get it.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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No one can stop me from talking about my movie.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but I didn't see any possibility of me not going to NIDA. I believed in myself, and I believed that, if you really do want something, you get it.
