Viola Davis Quotes

It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

Viola Davis

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Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

John Lanchester

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So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.

Robert McChesney

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Why don't I earn very much? I don't know; you'd have to ask my agent. Maybe I'm just not very bright!

Mauro Icardi

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When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together.

Jefferson Mays

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I never played Freddy as real. In the true bible of Wes Craven's outline for the films, Freddy only manifests himself in dreams. And a lot goes into a dream, not the least of which is imagination. So Freddy is secondhand information. Freddy is an urban legend that's been handed down to these teenagers over the years.

Robert Englund

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Advice from my experience, for me, I've never taken no as an answer, I don't believe in that. If I want something, I'm going to get it. When people tell me that I can't do something, it just motivates me more. For me, it makes me smile, because I just want to prove everybody wrong.

Roman Reigns

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We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.

Mike Crapo

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I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

Michael Sheen

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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

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Something I always liked to train is kickboxing.

Jose Aldo

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The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

Jonah Lomu

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There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off.

Chelsea Handler

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