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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...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.
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I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.
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Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
