Viola Davis Quotes

I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Viola Davis

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It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

Jim Ratcliffe

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Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

Jessica Brown Findlay

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We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

John C. Mather

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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Jeffrey Archer

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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Steve Erickson

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I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

Shirley MacLaine

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I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

Ruby Rose

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The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.

Molly Ivins

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Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

Joyce Meyer

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I wish everything was gender neutral. I wish we weren't separated by boundaries like pink and blue and little things like that. I wish we could choose how we express ourselves without hate.

Jazz Jennings

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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Demosthenes

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