Viola Davis Quotes
Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.Viola Davis
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes -
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler -
I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
Ed Bradley -
Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
Randi Weingarten -
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
Larry King -
I'm a little angry in life.
Vincent Cassel -
There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
Kajol -
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
Yami Gautam -
I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
Randy Pausch
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
Barbara Corcoran -
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw -
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown -
I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
Hailey Gates -
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
Ed Belfour
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
Ja Rule -
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
Eric Rohmer -
It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
Brandon Routh -
The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?
Brian Day -
Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.
Viola Davis