Andrew Davidson Quotes

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

Andrew Davidson

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• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Believe
  • Regret

• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Know
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday

• My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.

  

  Maluma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Love

• Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • You
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Me
  • Fall

• It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Regret

• I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Freedom
  • Passion
  • Regret

• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Regret

• Clavain felt little in the way of regret; more a sense of quiet relief that they were past the negotiating stage and into the infinitely more honest arena of actual battle.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Past
  • Regret

• One of the things I try to do - and I always regret when I'm not doing it - is I try to read as much as possible as I'm consuming news.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Regret

• I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Parents
  • Single
  • Hurt

• To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

  

  David Whyte
  • Past
  • Control
  • Present

• If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Bad
  • Choices
  • Regret

• I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.

  

  Marc Warren
  • Regret

• I don't regret being on television; I just regret the fact that I wanted to be in the movies, and that didn't happen.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Regret

• We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Age
  • Regret

• ... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Character
  • Rights
  • Virtues

• The psych up comes from knowing what I can both give and get from each role. I get a lot personally from each character I play that I am able to carry over into my everyday life.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Style
  • Color
  • Identity

• When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Machine

• The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

  

  Andrew Davidson
  • Regret
  • Yesterday
  • Retouch