Viola Davis Quotes
I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.
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My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
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Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
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I can't imagine taking up running.
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When I made the decision to stop working regionally and just focus on being in New York, part of the reason that instigated that choice was a desire to work on new plays and know what it was to originate a part.
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I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
