Kerry Washington Quotes
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
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Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.
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Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now behind some ornamental pillar, so as to put off as long as possible the shock of recognition, so as to be secure for one more moment to rock her petals in her basin. We wake her. We torture her. She dreads us, she despises us, yet she comes cringing to our sides because for al our cruelty there is always some name, some face which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams.
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Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
