Viola Davis Quotes
You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.
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Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.
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You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."
