Essie Davis Quotes

I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.

Essie Davis

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I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

Jim Parsons

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I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

John Hartford

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Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

John Oliver

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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Ambrose Bierce

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I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.

Sonny Mehta

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Most people I talked to, they'd be like, your first is your worst, because you go on and everybody's probably done more than you, so you get that sense that they're on a whole different level. But they just made me feel like a piece of the family.

RJ Cyler

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When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.

Ruchi Sanghvi

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I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'

Russell M. Nelson

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You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

Mohnish Pabrai

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Being in Australia makes me happy. My partner is Australian, and my home is in Australia, and it's ridiculous not to be Australian - it's a logical step to take.

Miriam Margolyes

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Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.

Judah Friedlander

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Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

Christina Applegate

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