Erin Davie Quotes
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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I grew up in New York.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
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The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
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I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
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I love having a shaved head. I'd rather not deal with hair if I don't have to. I like not thinking about it. A shaved head and letting my beard go requires the least amount of anything.
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Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.
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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
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I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job.
