Viola Davis
Related SAM SHEPARD If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything e... BERNIE MAC I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso... ANGIE KARAN STANLEY KUBRICK C. JOYBELL C. I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize... LUPITA NYONG'O I love Viola Davis. MARCIA CLARK With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em... SAMANTHA HARVEY You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art ... JAMES AVERY JESSAMYN WEST EMMANUEL JAL MAHERSHALA ALI BELL HOOKS BILL COSBY I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - lo... MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant ... LAURA HARRIER DEYTH BANGER GERARD WAY JOHN KRASINSKI For the person who tortured me in jail. For the person who tortured the many of AHMAD MOFTIZADEH RICHARD DAWKINS I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't... EDWARD HERRMANN OMARI HARDWICK If you can just stop loving her then you never really loved her at all. Love doesn't work that way. ... BLAKNEY FRANCIS NANCY LOPEZ NANCY LOPEZ Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself
and you see judges everywhere. Bu... EDMUND HOYLE The love has got to be bigger than everything else. The isolation, the separation, the danger. When ... THEA HARRISON She always believed love was good and hate was much better. But, indifference would’ve made her a ... A.A. GUPTE JACKIE ROBINSON DIANE LANE When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. ... IMANI HAKIM EMILY LEVINE GARY COLEMAN PETER KREEFT Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit. Now it's really easy to communicat... MISHA COLLINS It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architectu... FRANK GEHRY GREG BEHRENDT If you can't love the person you see in the mirror every day, & live with every moments of your life... SOURAV GHOSH When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity some... JOHN BRADLEY-WEST CHRIS CORNELL NANCY KERRIGAN We can think bigger than our capacity,by enlarging our capacity. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I love love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than ... MAREN MORRIS KAMAND KOJOURI I love Viola Davis. I call her 'Queen.' I think she's phenomenal. She's so raw and s... ANNA DIOP LAILAH GIFTY AKITA OSHO love is temporary, hate is necessary. YOUNG BEEZY Roses are red,violets are blue,when i flush the toilet i remember you. RODERICK ROTOL GEORGE STEINER As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, truest love can turn into truest nemesis. NIKHIL KUSHWAHA Here is one with a gift for loving and a gift for hating, and when he hates, God help the man who ea... ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF Love cannot stifle nor can it dictate. Either of those circumstances will turn a tender feeling into... CYNTHIA WICKLUND I love and if someone I love is hurt I'll kill the attacker and no one else, that is love. I hate an... TRISTE I hate him. Except for all the places where I love him half to death. CHARLOTTE STEIN ELLA WHEELER WILCOX LILY JAMES MARK RUFFALO There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and ... BRETT YOUNG I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how m... KATIE KITAMURA Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being ... AARON CARTER STEPHENIE MEYER When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish an... CARLY FIORINA GERMANY KENT DEBASISH MRIDHA When you forgive somebody, it’s not so much for them as it is for you. You need to be free from th... LACEY STURM It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century wo... TED DEUTCH QUINCY JONES There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less ... VINT CERF BENNY CASSETTE IDINA MENZEL KALLISTOS WARE In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good ... FINN WITTROCK ELLEN DEGENERES BEAH RICHARDS Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live wi... KARAN SINGH GROVER YUNA ROBERT H. SCHULLER ROBERT A. HEINLEIN DAMON ALBARN KATHLEEN KENNEDY There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't ... EMMETT SHEAR Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,... GLADYS KNIGHT DEBBIE FORD Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves... AWDHESH SINGH LAUREN OLIVER As a human being, it's in your nature, when somebody says something about you negatively, to def... RAY ALLEN WILLIAM BLAKE I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. Bu... JACQUES VILLENEUVE DELTA GOODREM GERRY COONEY GaGa is a digital baby - that's how they communicate. There cant be any layers between the artis... TROY CARTER I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career. ICE CUBE TONI MORRISON CRAIG GROESCHEL Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett. RUTINA WESLEY That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and ... AKON
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