They say the two most important days in a person’s life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
VIOLA DAVISWe as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she’s like, ‘I just want to be a mom.
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They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.
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I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes – that’s what it is, as an actor.
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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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They say the two most important days in a person’s life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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