Viola Davis Quotes

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we've been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

Viola Davis

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BestCultureFightPeopleWorldYou

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

Melanie Chisholm

MeCareIgnoreLookNewWhy

For me, the good food starts with good product.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

GoodFoodGood FoodMeProduct

I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away.

Meredith Brooks

GodMeLookingNobodyKnowSaid

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

Steven Spielberg

ThinkFindBornEscapeMoviesWay

I would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself or already have innately in you as a storyteller, and, B, coming up with a good screenplay is a very, very small fraction of what it takes to be a good screenwriter.

Robert Ben Garant

GoodYourselfSmallYouSayTeach

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Roger Ebert

NothingVeniceStraightforwardSeems

Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.

Martina Hingis

BetterFeelNowBeatI FeelMuch

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

Delta Goodrem

WordsI AmMeInsecurityMeaning

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

David Whyte

FearLieArroganceUnderstandingOur

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

Piers Anthony

FunPotentialFirstFictionRead

I grew up with park jams. That's how I knew about rap... The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping. I just used to be so in awe and fascinated and like, 'Wow, this is amazing!' But I would never, ever touch the mic. Heck no.

Pepa

AmazingStartTouchNeverAwePark

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

Timothy Spall

MeasureDoneAwardsWellOneself

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