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I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.
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I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.
Kerry Washington
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I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
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My mother is one of seven kids, so I have a lot of strong women in my family, and I have supportive, beautiful relationships with all of them.
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I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
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It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.
Kerry Washington -
I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.
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I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.
Kerry Washington
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Before 'Scandal,' I was actually cast in two other pilots. Both went to series, but I was fired and recast. For both, it was because they wanted me to sound more 'girlfriend,' more like 'hood,' more 'urban.'
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I have to take care of myself in order to live life the way I want to. It's important to have rest days. But in the long run, if I don't work out for, like, three days, I feel worse, not better.
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I really gravitate toward having all different styles in my closet because I feel like I always want to dress to fit my mood or where I am going. I do love Jason Wu; he is also a really good friend of mine, and I love what he is doing for Hugo Boss these days.
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That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
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I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
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So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.
Kerry Washington
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I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive.
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I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood.
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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.
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When you buy into the cultural idea of what's acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn't work for me. I don't love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I'd want to live my life in truth.
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Shoes define how you walk in the world and how you stand: like, what is your posture in life?
Kerry Washington -
I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it.
Kerry Washington
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I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, and say, 'See?' Are we so uncomfortable with love between two people of the same gender that we immediately label it as sexual? But I've never been bothered by the lesbian rumor. There's nothing offensive about it, so there's no reason to be offended.
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As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld.
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When you have things that are very important to you in life, when there are things you want to do and be - that takes work. It takes work to show up for your own story and show up for the dream and vision you have for yourself.
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I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights.
Kerry Washington