Viola Davis Quotes
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
Viola Davis
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
Gary Bauer
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
Rafael Palmeiro
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
Laura Mvula
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
Taylor Sheridan
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Interior design is a business of trust.
Venus Williams
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
Carli Lloyd
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L. J. Smith
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
Val Kilmer
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
Carl Levin
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
Zooey Deschanel
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
Pat Metheny
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
Mahershala Ali
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I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
Maggie Siff
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The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
Gaston Bachelard
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
Viola Davis
