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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
Viola DavisViola Davis I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
Viola DavisViola Davis Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
Viola DavisViola Davis Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
Viola DavisViola Davis I don’t have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn’t love me has to say about me.
Viola DavisViola Davis I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
Viola DavisViola Davis You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
Viola DavisViola Davis I can’t deal with actors! I can’t deal with myself. We’re neurotic and miserable… I love doing what I’m doing, but while I’m doing it, I’m miserable.
Viola DavisViola Davis When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
Viola DavisViola Davis Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
Viola DavisViola Davis I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
Viola DavisViola Davis 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.
Viola DavisViola Davis People are just not impressed by me at home.
Viola DavisViola Davis I’m a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I’m a sitting duck because I can’t get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They’re far ahead of me. That’s what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It’s a big, silent monster out there. That’s what it feels like.
Viola DavisViola Davis I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
Viola DavisViola Davis When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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Staying young means being willing to learn, evolve, and be open to life.
SadhguruSadhguru We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler Will you stay up late with me tonight? sit quietly while I write you into a piece of art that will be a marvel for the ages?
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Life is a lonely journey. We expect and even believe that someone will always be there for us, but that illusion fades away with age and time.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur Nostalgia seems to haunt me these days I wonder if it’s old age or just a phase.
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