Tamra Davis Quotes
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
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If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
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I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
