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Viola Davis Quotes

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 11, 1965

Topics

People Grow Poverty You Way See

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Growth Art Minority Only Margins

I have a lot of fantasy.

The problem of the Panthers is that they scared people. The music of N.W.A didn't scare people; it taught people what it was like to grow up in our inner cities.

Music People Grow Problem Grow Up

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

People Think Choose I Can Pretend

I am more off-the-cuff and wear my emotions on my sleeve more than I should.

I Am Emotions More Wear Than Sleeve

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Life People Action Enough You Know

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.

City Green Madness Fence House Gate

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

Life You Surrender Mysterious Reason

As you get older, it's good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it's not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away.

Dolores O'Riordan

Good Hope Darkness Negative Face

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Good Heart Poetry Better Bad Quirky

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

Girl Wife You Rules Seriously Meet

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

Language Body Real Things Senses

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