Lucy Davis Quotes

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

Lucy Davis

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• I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Dad
  • Police
  • Roles

• I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Morning
  • Everyday
  • Shoes

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• I love women more than anything.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Love
  • More

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Old
  • Valuable

• I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • World
  • Great
  • Humanity

• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
  • Change
  • Space

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Economic

• Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Our

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Everyone

• I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Remember

• I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Guy

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.

  

  Parris Glendening
  • People
  • Done
  • Help

• It's an incredible feeling, 110,000 people energy at that level. What I realized from watching the first day of competition was that athletes that got excited and happy and got the fans into it and clapping, they did better. The athletes that took it too seriously, they didn't do as well as they'd hoped.

  

  Gabe Jennings
  • People
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Up
  • Want
  • Comedy

• Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Space
  • Positive
  • Audience

• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Grow

• I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Happy
  • Childhood