Kerry Washington Quotes
I bring something to the table as a woman; I bring something to the table as a woman of color.
Quotes to Explore
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
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When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
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Cyrus was observed to have more docility than any of his years and to show more submission to those of an advanced age than any other children, though of a condition inferior to his own.
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The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
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Historically, people of color and the Diaspora have been at the bottom of the barrel, even as it relates to immigration. If we don't engage in the discussion, then what is it that we're saying to people? That we don't care?
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Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
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I bring something to the table as a woman; I bring something to the table as a woman of color.
