Viola Davis Quotes
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
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So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
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It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.
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Each role has its own different challenges.
