Viola Davis Quotes
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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I'm always going to be a singer.
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You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.
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Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.
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I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.
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I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
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I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.
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Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
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I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
