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.
VIOLA DAVISAnything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.
More Viola Davis Quotes
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.
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In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
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Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!
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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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[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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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
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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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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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One of the people I’ve always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she’s been able to play and the number of different stories she’s been able to tell.
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I think that I’m coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
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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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And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
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