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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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 all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
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I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
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Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.
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We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
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I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
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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.
