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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. "

Kerry Washington

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" It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating. "

" As one of the first African-Americans to be out on a reality program, MTV's 'The Real World: Philadelphia,' I understand the courage it takes to live your truth on a national platform, the importance it holds to LGBT communities of color, and the power it has to create a greater conversation within American culture. "

" A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. "

James Callaghan

" You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live. "

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

" Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right. "

" What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare. "

" Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary. "

" Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. "

Winston Churchill

" I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. "

Susana Martinez

" Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. "

" When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way. "

" We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. "

Stokely Carmichael

" With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. "

Margaret Mitchell

" We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. "

William Hazlitt

" Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. "

" I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive. "

Kerry Washington

" Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' "

" Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. "

" It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting. "

Glenn Greenwald

" Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Political courage is not political suicide. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage. "

" Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. "

Thornton Wilder

" Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. "

Omar N. Bradley

" If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it. "

" Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. "

" Every man of courage is a man of his word. "

Pierre Corneille

" It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense. "

" I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. "