Tamra Davis Quotes

I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.

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• Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Control
  • Person
  • Situation

• I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Think
  • Muscle

• If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Best
  • Worry

• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Me
  • Court
  • Skeptics

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Got

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Society
  • Fire
  • Sound

• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Being
  • Outsiders
  • Vine

• This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Business
  • Soul
  • Talent

• Computer scientists have built a set of massive DNS databases, which provide fragmentary histories of communications flows, in part to create an archive of malware: a kind of catalog of the tricks bad actors have tried to pull, which often involve masquerading as legitimate actors.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Bad

• I hope the Final Five has shown that everyone is capable of success if they work hard.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Success

• That Shakespeare wanted Art.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Art

• I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Concise
  • Compulsive
  • Shopper

• If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • House

• I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Girl
  • Young
  • Mentoring