Evan Davis Quotes
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
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Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!
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Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
