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Hope Davis Quotes

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.'

Hope Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: March 23, 1964

Topics

Me Thought Go Therapy Talk Years

You know how I learned to shoot? I watched white people. Just regular white people. They really put their elbow in and finish up top. You can find videos of them online.

Joel Embiid

People You Find White Know Top

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

John Knoll

Job Look Question Ask Real Percent

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.

Matthew Scully

History People Farming Existence

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

Angela Duckworth

Good Daughter Me Done Meet She

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

Speech One Thing Much Thing Another

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.'

Robin Sloan

School Book Library Week Year Down

Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.

Lucy Dacus

Music Passion Job People Hobby You

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

Jason Babin

Team Win Looking Out Compete Like

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

Douglas Sirk

Pictures Lighting Which Throughout

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Doris Lessing

Best Sin Real Anything Persuade

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That's why they don't have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they're limiting movement.

Conor McGregor

Work People Game Long Body Career

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

Myself Writing Think Doing Happens