Tamra Davis Quotes
There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
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Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
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Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
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I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.
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I wasn't interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.
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There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
