Viola Davis Quotes
I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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I think it's a good thing that we can have relatively non-partisan political conversations because I don't think that my premier necessarily should agree with everything the federal NDP says. I don't think she should disagree with everything the federal Conservatives say. I think that Albertans and Canadians as a whole, as I always say, are looking for pragmatic politicians with pragmatic solutions to their problems, and they want the best ideas to move forward, regardless of who has that idea.
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I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
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I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?
