Kerry Washington Quotes
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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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 was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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If your car takes 95 and you put 87 in it, it's gonna run sluggish, right? A lot of people don't realize what you put in your body affects your mechanics, and you're gonna run sluggish.
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.
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I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.
