Vaginal Davis Quotes
The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."
Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:...
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Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.
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Make of yourself a light.
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No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
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The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."
