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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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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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 Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.
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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.
