Viola Davis Quotes
I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a man who gets bald on the crown of his head is a lover. It follows, certainly, that a man who gets bald all over his head thinks he's a lover.
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Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.
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I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.
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I was concentrating all the time. I left some pitches in the middle and they hit it well. That happens when you make a mistake and don't locate your pitches.
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I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.