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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When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
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When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on the path to eliminating the national debt. When President Obama came into office, he inherited the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. He has cut the deficit by two-thirds.
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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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The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
