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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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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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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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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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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American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.
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Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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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.
