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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.

Viola Davis

And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
VIOLA DAVIS

Artist Politician
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.
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Ems Girl Looks
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 DAVIS

Expectations Jobs People
You can’t be hesitant about who you are.
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Hesitant Who You Are
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
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Bigger Passion
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.
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Night Up All Night Worry
I guess they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention” because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
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Hero Powerful Thinking
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.
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Destiny Dreams Please
They say, ‘To serve is to love,’ and I think to serve is to heal, too.
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Choices Desperate Situations Two
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.
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Daughter Heart Morning
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
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Heal Thinking
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
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 DAVIS

Born Important Two
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.
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Helping Ordinary People
That’s how I digest it, ’cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I’m gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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Mother Perspective Years

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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