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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Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.
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There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.
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If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.
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Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
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You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
