Jack Davenport Quotes
Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I played point guard my whole life.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.
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I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.
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My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to stay on farms because our children were pretty wild, and it was great going to the beach every day. We used to go to Launceston and Salcombe and all over those two counties.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
