"You can't be hesitant about who you are."

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Source : "STAGE TO SCREENS: Chats with Intimate Apparel's Viola Davis and New York Newcomer, King Lear's Geraint Wyn Davies" by Michael Buckley, www.playbill.com. March 14, 2004.

Viola Davis

#Who You Are Quotes

“I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him â€“ and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.”
“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”
“In some ways I'm very structured.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.”
“I am drinking the stars”
“My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.”
“The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.”

Source : "It’s Even Less in Your Genes" by Richard C. Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. May 26, 2011.
“There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. Iâ€™ll carry them for the rest of my days.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.349, Pan Macmillan

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