Kerry Washington Quotes
I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
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I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.
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All the art since the Renaissance seemed too men-oriented. I liked (the) object quality. An Egyptian pyramid, a Sung vase, the Romanesque church appealed to me. The forms found in the vaulting of a cathedral or even a splatter of tar on the road seemed more valid and instructive and a more voluptuous experience than either geometric or action painting.
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I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.
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Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.
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I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.
