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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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
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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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It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.
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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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A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
