Viola Davis Quotes
Even when I go shopping, I don't shop as a woman. The only time I shop is when I need something, and I'm in and out in less than 30 minutes, so I have no energy to look at 50 million gowns and styles and make sketches and think about heels. I'm not girly in that way. I'm relying on the stylist to do 99 percent of the work.
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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I love the Beatles.
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She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.
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The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.
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To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
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Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.
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Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.
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Even when I go shopping, I don't shop as a woman. The only time I shop is when I need something, and I'm in and out in less than 30 minutes, so I have no energy to look at 50 million gowns and styles and make sketches and think about heels. I'm not girly in that way. I'm relying on the stylist to do 99 percent of the work.
