Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
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I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
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I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
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I'm a spiritual person.
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We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
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When I'm on the pitch, I enjoy myself, and I try to give my all.
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Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
