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Hope Davis Quotes

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Learning History Country Seen

I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved.

Learn Look Back Want Bar Torah

I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Good Remember Week Body I Can Said

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Sports Time Me Data Public Domain

I don't think you should do something just to prove to an audience that you can do it, that's way out of your wheelhouse.

You Can Do It Think You Prove Way

American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.

Food American You Back Immigrants

There is a place for people 65 and older that no other age group can fit. We have nothing to lose. Some of us have a couple pennies. We can go out now and really be revolutionaries.

Age People Lose Place Group Nothing

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Marvin J. Ashton

Joy Me Now Always Pleasure Us

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

Work Silence Me Night Late Quiet

It is important we don't become complacent, do our job and stay professional.

Job Professional Important Become

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

World Always Imperfect

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of those incidents. In stories, as reality melds with art, the result sometimes feels truer than real life.

Life Art Memory Think Reality Look

I let the American people down.

Richard M. Nixon

History People American Down

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