Kerry Washington Quotes
For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.
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I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
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For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process.
