Viola Davis Quotes
Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
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Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.
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The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.
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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
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Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.
