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Kerry Washington Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“Olivia: Burying yourself in work isn't always the best thing when you lose someone.

Fitz: Running away isn't the best thing either.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: Like Father, Like Daughter
Tagged: Work, Running Away, Loss, Distractions
“You don't want justice. You want anger. You want outrage. You want retribution.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: The Lawn Chair
Tagged: Justice, Anger, Outrage, Retribution
“All you can see is God and country and you're so busy being a patriot that you forget to be a person.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: Ride, Sally, Ride
Tagged: Patriot, Person, Living, country, God
“ It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: The Price of Free and Fair Elections
Tagged: scandal, Shut It Down, fixed, Handled, Problem
“You can do this job and keep your integrity. Just be honest. Be yourself.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: It’s Good to Be Kink
Tagged: Job, Work, Integrity, honest, Be yourself
“My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don't know why I wouldn't seek help to have those things be as healthy as me teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn't I go to a strink?”
— Kerry Washington, Michelle Obama, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kerry Washington: The Important Cause Bringing Three Powerhouse Women Together
Tagged: Mental Health Awareness, Depression
“I don't do lost causes or tilt at windmills. I don't perform miracles or do the impossible. I make cold calculations about difficult situations and I do not take on anything I know I won't win. And I will win this. I just need you to trust me. I promise you.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 2: White Hat's Off
Tagged: Trust, Never Give Up, Winner, promises
“We artists got to stick together.”
— Mia Warren, Little Fires Everywhere, Season 1: The Spark
Tagged: Artist, Unite, Stick Together
“Is this your thing now? Lying to me.”
— Mia Warren, Little Fires Everywhere, Season 1: Seventy Cents
Tagged: Lie, Sad, Question
“You didn't make good choices, you had good choices.”
— Mia Warren, Little Fires Everywhere, Season 1: The Spider Web
Tagged: Good choices , status, Priviledge
“People want to like who they're voting for. People thought Al Gore was a big stiff until he stuck his tongue down Tipper's throat. They put George W. in office because he and Laura seemed like a fun couple to have a beer with. People have to want to invite you in for dinner.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 1: The Trail
Tagged: vote, President, In Office, Likeability, Popular, Relatable
“ I'm working. I'm gladiating.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: The Key
Tagged: Working, Gladiator, Catchphrase
“If you don't stand up for yourself, who will?”
— Mia Warren, Little Fires Everywhere, Season 1: Seeds and All
Tagged: Advocate, Stand Up, Question, empowerment
“We're never done. If we lose this round, we prep him for appeal. If we lose that, we prep him for a second appeal, because whatever happens, there's always another move. Whatever happens, we do not give up. It is my name on that door, and I do not give up.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 1: Hell Hath No Fury
Tagged: Another Move, Never Give Up, Never Done, Work
“You can be the lead in your own life.”
— Kerry Washington, Glamour
Tagged: Women, Inspiring, Empowering, feminism
“ You're frozen in time. You're holding your breath. You're a statue waiting for something that's never going to happen. Living for stolen moments in hotel hallways and coat closets and you keep telling yourself they all add up to something real because in your mind they have to but they don't. They won't. They never will. Because stolen moments aren't a life. So you have nothing. You have no one. End it now.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 2: Boom Goes the Dynamite
Tagged: frozen, Revenge, Life, wasted, stolen
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