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Robyn Davidson Quotes

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: September 6, 1950

Topics

Painting Writing Loved Career Way

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Jillian Michaels

Work Happiness Mistake People You

Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school.

School People Drama Go Say Arts

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

Sad Depression Job Night Lost Up

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

Children Compassion End You Mercy

I have more faith in Santa Claus now than I do an exec.

Faith Now More Santa Than

I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

Chris Hemsworth

Work School Cleaning Interview Force

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

Christopher Guest

I Am People World Lose True Become

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Christopher Hitchens

Technology Said Share Star Defense

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

Alfred de Vigny

Thought Search Judge Feeling Cloudy

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Prayer Worry Cure Sovereign

When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.

Work Speech Long Out Along Like

I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.

Money Me Sister Back Knowing She

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