Kerry Washington Quotes
I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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We become what we pay attention to.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Bob Newhart, who is my best friend, is one of the guys I adore.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.
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I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
