Viola Davis Quotes
When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."Viola Davis
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Orville Wright -
Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
Yahya Jammeh -
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Ida B. Wells -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A. -
I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
Ursula Andress -
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
Oscar de la Renta -
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne -
I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
Edmund Phelps -
I love researching, I love interviewing.
Quiara Alegria Hudes
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
L'Wren Scott -
I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
Karan Singh Grover -
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
Macaulay Culkin -
Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria
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From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
Teddy Pendergrass -
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
Brigitte Bardot -
You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.
David Dewhurst -
When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."
Viola Davis