Kerry Washington Quotes
I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
-
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
-
To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
-
The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
-
Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
-
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
-
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
-
Teachers need time to engage with colleagues - whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.
-
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
-
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
-
I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
-
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-
It's human nature to want to be with other people.
-
The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
-
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
-
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
-
Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.
-
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
-
If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.
-
I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You've got to have something else to go with that.
-
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
-
Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'
-
There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.
-
I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.
