Viola Davis Quotes
My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.
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The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.
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My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
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I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.
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Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
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Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
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It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
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Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.
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The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.
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The difference between the swimming marathon and the pool events is mainly down to the weather. Nature always gives us external factors to deal with.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.
