Viola Davis Quotes
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.
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I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.
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I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
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Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
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Games are the most social of all things on the web.
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Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
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A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
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On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.
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We grew up in Alaska and will rep The North Face all day long.
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The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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If something is crucial to the plot, then I'd better be sure I've got my facts straight. Readers of crime novels are smart and savvy, and they'll waste no time letting me know if there's a hole in my plot.
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Misery loves company.
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Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.
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Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw parades when Apple has the biggest quarter in corporate history. People don't call and email asking for anyone from the team to come visit their sick child. They don't cry as they request a jersey of their child's favorite player to be buried with them.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
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To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.
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The reality is the only place a company's culture is going to start and end is at the beginning of that company. And it always starts with the founders. So if you can't create an environment of founders and founding employees who are going to represent the company you want, then you are never going to get there. You have to look at your own network and find what you are missing. So if you don't have a female or someone who has an international perspective or a person with a bio degree, but those perspectives matter to the firm or product you want to create, then it's never going to work out.
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
