Viola Davis Quotes

I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.

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• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

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• I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

  

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• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

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• Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

  

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• By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

  

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• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

  

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• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

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• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

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• I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'

  

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• Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

  

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• I've been training quite hard.

  

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• Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

  

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• I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

  

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• I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

  

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• My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

  

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• The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

  

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• You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

  

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• I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

  

  Kerry Greenwood
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• The reduction of the tactile qualities of life and language constitute the refinement sought in the Renaissance and repudiated now in the electronic age. (p. 272)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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  • Age

• I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Different
  • Today
  • Proud