Viola Davis Quotes
I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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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 learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.
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I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.
