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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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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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 don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.
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My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with 'Barb Wire.'
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I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.
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Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
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I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
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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.
