Viola Davis Quotes

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

Viola Davis

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• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

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• I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.

  

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• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

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• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
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• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
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• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'

  

  Olga Fonda
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• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  

  Dana Hill
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• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

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• The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
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• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
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• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

  

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• At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.

  

  Aimee Bender
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• Harnessing the power of the present means having your full awareness on the task at hand and having access to the possibilities, the opportunities, and the support that exists right now.

  

  Debbie Ford
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• It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

  

  Ang Lee
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• People's expectations of what I'm capable of doing are very low. People have been used to hearing little one-liners and me play around.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
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• You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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• All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Needs
  • Bits