Viola Davis Quotes
I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.
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The world needs some help.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.
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A happy and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness. (1)
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.
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You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.
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I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.
