Viola Davis Quotes

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

Viola Davis

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• Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Want
  • Stand
  • Strangers

• When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.

  

  Edi Rama
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Long
  • America
  • High

• I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Retirement

• Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of radio remotes, and everybody was just like 'What's your last name?' It's not easy to pronounce. The first two minutes I got with people, that's what they wanted to talk about, and sometimes those two minutes is all you get.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Day
  • Name

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Different
  • Giving
  • Energy

• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Said

• It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Together
  • Hope

• Most Canadians, if they don't show up for work, they don't get a promotion. … You missed 70 per cent of the votes.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Up
  • Work

• Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Knowledge
  • Reading

• Liberal arts colleges have traditionally provided a forum for debating ideas. Avoiding controversy and 'playing it safe' by not inviting - or disinviting - speakers with 'controversial' views stifles debate.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Democracy

• I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill.'

  

  John Grisham
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
  • American
  • Presidential

• I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • School
  • Dad
  • Singing

• Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Understanding
  • Artist
  • Listening

• Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Party
  • Mask

• Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • War
  • Age

• As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.

  

  Betty Edwards
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Reality

• The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Mask
  • Glam