Viola Davis Quotes
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I can always go back to education.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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I make music to make you sick of fake music - hate music like devil worshippin' Satan music. So say your prayers - your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.
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To protect our kids, we've given law enforcement new tools to fight human trafficking.
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I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'
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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
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Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.
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L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.
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Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.
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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
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If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.
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The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
