Mo'ne Davis Quotes

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.

I always read the script, try to imagine myself in the role, then decide whether I have anything to give to the part. If you don't feel like that in the beginning, it is not going to go well.

I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know?

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude. Maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing and I mean, thank goodness!

I use Ahava skincare, which is natural line from Israel and is made from minerals from the Dead Sea. I have the most sensitive skin.

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!

I probably believe in God in a non-denominational way.

Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

Sometimes you just get burnt out with fashion.

There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

I'm just happy when people want me to work for them.

I do a lot of comedy and I like that. I am happy doing funny films. I am often the straight person in a comedy, which is great as long as there are talented people to work with.

Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.

A little mystery is not such a bad thing.

I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt or a sense of humor.

As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

I started with small-press publishers, who were willing to publish all sorts of forms. I didn't move to the larger presses until they knew what they were getting in for.

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.

Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me, cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.