Vanessa Mae Quotes
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
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The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
