Siobhan Davies (Sue Davies) Quotes
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Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
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I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
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I understood more what Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan, what they were coming from. Kind of the horrors of their childhoods that they were coming from. When you experience such pain early on, some people really interface with that pain and try and unpack it, and some people just take it and squelch it down and try and be as successful as they can. And, you know, encourage everybody, "Don't dwell on the negative! Come on, buck up!"
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For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea.
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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
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It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.
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There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
