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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In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
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It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.
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The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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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."
