Viola Davis Quotes
I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.
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The remarkable thing about 9/11 was that journalism pretty much put down its badges. People didn't worry about reacting as human beings. People who weren't reporters reported. David Letterman was sort of a brilliant reporter for a second - but it was a way nobody had ever covered a story. They just presented what was inside themselves.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".
