Viola Davis Quotes

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

Viola Davis

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LifeQualityExcellencePeopleBlack

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John Hannah

LifeBusinessInfluenceOthersHeavy

I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.

John Grant

LoveMusicI Love

I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.

John Hickenlooper

LoveMusicI CanGoJust Because

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

HappinessHappyBe HappyForget

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Mia Hamm

SportsFunBecomeMoreMean

I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.

Simone Biles

GoldNowCelebrityTwoSameMedals

I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

Robert Englund

MoneyI CanSalaryHorrorNeedOpen

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Rita Dove

ChildrenTalentThinkInsightOut

I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Jason Calacanis

CommunityAngelStrongThinkYou

Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.

Shekhar Kapur

StarsGreatMemoryPeopleDoing

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

Thomas Horn

MyselfDecisionsDoingKnowWantAm

At Shopify, we are trying to make things as simple as possible, but for the business owner, it's not unlike starting your own little shop along Main Street somewhere.

Tobias Lutke

BusinessSimpleTryingPossibleOwn

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