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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent.

Viola Davis

I really wanted to show [in fences] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.
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Embrace Sexy Who I Am
I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that’s the one I’d be interested in redoing.
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Giving People Wall
As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess. That’s what we do. We get a human being, and it’s like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
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Needs People Tiny
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Choices Desperate Situations Two
People are just not impressed by me at home.
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Capacity To Love Hate Humanity
If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.
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Desperate Situations Mother Two
I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.
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Ends The End Of The Day World
All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn’t have to be huge and humongous.
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Grows
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you’re not worthy.
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People Thinking Want
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. I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.
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Impart Trying
[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.
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Careers Mom The End Of The Day
I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
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Actors Deals Miserable
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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Born Important Two
I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we’ll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
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Home Not Impressed People
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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Different Eye Unspoken Words
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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Creativity Real Real Life

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