Viola Davis Quotes
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	Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.   
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	Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.   
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	Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.   
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	I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.   
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	Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.   
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	Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.   
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	Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.   
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	To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.   
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	Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child   
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	Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.   
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	You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.   
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	In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.   
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	The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.   
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	Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.   
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	A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.   
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	I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows.   
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	I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.   
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	Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.   
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	The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.   
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	When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.   
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	Revolutionary change means the seizure of all that is held by the 1 percent, and the transference of these holdings into the hands of the remaining 99 percent. If the 1 percent are simply replaced by another 1 percent, revolutionary change has not taken place.   
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	I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.   
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	Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.   
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	Relationships change us and make us grow.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					