Kerry Washington Quotes
When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
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When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
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When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.
