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Viola Davis Quotes

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Age Writing Poverty Acting Young Up

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God Pain Measure Our Concept Which

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.

People Think Natural Liberal Because

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Stephen Hawking

Simple Universe Understanding Goal

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

Stephen Rodrick

People Me Stranger Tell Magical Get

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

I Am People Mind Me Black Doors

I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.

Single Move Because Get Much Really

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

Love God Learn You Say Try

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Teacher Way Everyone Read Met About

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

Father Heart Serious Matter Disease

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

Great Equality Theatre Fall Cinema

Ali reversed the decision in a second fight with Joe Frazier. That's what would happen if I played Billie Jean again.

Decision Fight Happen Would Again

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

Funny Relationship Care Admire Eat

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