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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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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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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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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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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Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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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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Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
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I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.
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Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.
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I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
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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.
