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Essie Davis Quotes

Sometimes it's easy to do brave things in front of a thousand people, but it's hard to do them in front of a handful. It feels so much more exposing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: australian
Birth: January 7, 1970

Topics

People Brave Easy Sometimes Hard

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

Hate People Know Why Watching Them

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

Robert J. Sawyer

Success Failure Future Classic Us

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Time Progress People Understanding

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.

Sidney Blumenthal

Problem Early Terrorism Aware Very

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

Martin O'Malley

Security Cave Social Security Myth

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

Just Sexual Homosexual

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

Money Finance Book Long Personal Up

I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.

Voice Name Loved Magic You Table

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.

Women Truth Time Man Me Truth Is

If it's compelling and engaging enough, customers will consider paying for it. If we don't deliver something that has value, we won't expect value in return.

Value Enough Will Expect Return

Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.

Life Wife Travel Looking Back Bath

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Art People Believe Everybody Trusts

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