You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON It is better to be alone than in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Is...
KERRY WASHINGTON Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proporti...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I...
KERRY WASHINGTON I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan ado...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since child...
KERRY WASHINGTON My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is wor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON