Kerry Washington Quotes
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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The cinema saved me from being a delinquent. I could have been, but I didn't get caught up. I never was going to get arrested or anything.
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I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
