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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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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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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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
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I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.
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It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.
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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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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.
