Kerry Washington Quotes
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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I belong nowhere and to no one.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
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I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
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I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]
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There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.
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It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.
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I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.
