Elizabeth Debicki Quotes

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

Elizabeth Debicki

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • House
  • Beautiful

• My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Playing
  • Role
  • Then

• Back in the day, I had this fluoro pink hoodie that I thought was the coolest thing ever. Left it at a party and never saw it again. Probably the best thing that could have happened.

  

  Flume
  • Day
  • Party
  • Best

• Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Power
  • Cinema
  • Improvisational

• The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Good
  • Year
  • Impact

• Giving back is the right thing to do, whether it's donating clothing or even just a smile to someone who needs it.

  

  Becky G
  • Giving
  • Smile
  • Giving Back

• Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Work
  • Music
  • Art

• Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, 'See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.'

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Hand

• It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Bad

• Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Life

• I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Interesting
  • Drama

• I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

  

  Derek Bailey
  • People

• I wake up as soon as it gets light.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Up
  • Light

• Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Money

• When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Live

• Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Father
  • Passionate
  • Uncle

• Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

  

  Louise Fresco
  • Food

• Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Ecology

• I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki