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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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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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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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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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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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
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It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
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The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Will the American Southwest become a giant Kosovo, a part of the nation separated from the rest by language, ethnicity, history and culture, to be reabsorbed in all but name by Mexico from whom we took these lands in the time of Jackson and Polk?
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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.
