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" I think Calvin is so beautiful. Oscar De La Renta is so classic. I really like the Rodarte girl; they are super-inventive, and they think outside the box. I am all over the place! "
Kerry Washington
Beautiful
I Am
Girl
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" That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. "
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" Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in the room, we're still a token; we don't actually have an empowered voice. If there's two of us, we're still a minority. If there's three, then we're allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions. "
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" I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, and say, 'See?' Are we so uncomfortable with love between two people of the same gender that we immediately label it as sexual? But I've never been bothered by the lesbian rumor. There's nothing offensive about it, so there's no reason to be offended. "
Kerry Washington
Gender
Love
Me
" I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires. "
Kerry Washington
Creative
Control
People
" You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. "
Kerry Washington
Changes
Better
People
" I have to take care of myself in order to live life the way I want to. It's important to have rest days. But in the long run, if I don't work out for, like, three days, I feel worse, not better. "
Kerry Washington
Live Life
Work
Run
" I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character. "
Kerry Washington
Character
Job
Love
" So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward. "
Kerry Washington
Love
Great
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" I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye. "
Kerry Washington
Fear
Myself
Politics
" I really gravitate toward having all different styles in my closet because I feel like I always want to dress to fit my mood or where I am going. I do love Jason Wu; he is also a really good friend of mine, and I love what he is doing for Hugo Boss these days. "
Kerry Washington
Dress
Love
I Am
" The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. "
Kerry Washington
Love
Children
Family
" I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting. "
Kerry Washington
I Am
Think
Sexy
" You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you. "
Kerry Washington
May
Thinking
Politics
" As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld. "
Kerry Washington
Woman
Real
Girl
" Earlier in my career, I was much more super-sharey. There were moments when I wanted to process things that were happening to me more privately, and I didn't have the space to do it, because once you let people in, they're in, and you don't get to say, 'Oh, I want this for myself.' "
Kerry Washington
You
Moments
Space
" I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood. "
Kerry Washington
Media
Amazing
Social Media
" About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me. "
Kerry Washington
Reading
Thought
Know
" I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it. "
Kerry Washington
Me
Talk
Career
" I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue. "
Kerry Washington
Say
American
Now
" I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera. "
Kerry Washington
Acting
Love
Stage
" When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be. "
Kerry Washington
Think
Grateful
I Am
" For me, what is political is very personal. Politics are not this abstract idea. Laws are the rules that dictate how we live our lives. What we eat is political. How we dress is political. Where we live is political. All of these things are influenced by political decision-making, and it's important to be part of the process. "
Kerry Washington
Political
Dress
Live
" I bring something to the table as a woman; I bring something to the table as a woman of color. "
Kerry Washington
Something
Table
Bring
" I've never been comfortable being a pawn. I work with brands where I feel like I can have my say and companies that I'm proud to be in a relationship with. Partnerships take a lot of time. If I am going to put my name and my face and my energy behind something, I want it to be authentic. "
Kerry Washington
I Am
Relationship
Time
" I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! "
Kerry Washington
Immigrants
Woman
Island
" I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret. "
Kerry Washington
Personal
Life
Secret
" I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing. "
Kerry Washington
Actor
Changing
Potential
" Before 'Scandal,' I was actually cast in two other pilots. Both went to series, but I was fired and recast. For both, it was because they wanted me to sound more 'girlfriend,' more like 'hood,' more 'urban.' "
Kerry Washington
Girlfriend
More
Sound
" I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race. "
Kerry Washington
Doing
Interesting
Race
" If I were somebody who spent the majority of my time saying things that were harsh and difficult to hear, I would want my visual aesthetic to be something soft and feminine, warm and easy to be around. "
Kerry Washington
Aesthetic
Easy
Saying