Viola Davis Quotes
Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.Viola Davis
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
Wayne McGregor -
I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
Karan Mahajan -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle -
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin -
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
Dag Hammarskjold -
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith -
I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
Carlos Ponce -
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
Hannibal Buress
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
Kate Winslet -
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Sally Pearson -
I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
Eddie Trunk -
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
Jack Keane -
It’s a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot, For the places and people you're lucky you're not!
Dr. Seuss -
'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'
Aimee Mullins -
There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
Viola Davis