Vesta Williams Quotes
When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.Vesta Williams
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
Harmony Korine -
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne -
Isolationism is over.
Ralph Steadman -
Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I had long hair when I was a teenager.
Beck -
I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
Hank Haney
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
Kate Winslet -
I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
Macaulay Culkin -
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ice T -
I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
Kat Graham -
We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
Irvin D. Yalom -
Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
Dan Shechtman
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
Famke Janssen -
I was always taken in and out of school.
Dakota Johnson -
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry -
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour -
There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
Karan Mahajan -
It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
Samantha Power
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I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.
Yuri Lowenthal -
It's really fun to have the spotlight and feel ready for it. Not in a conceited way. But just like, 'Man, I think I'm going to give you what you need.'
Andy Grammer -
Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven -
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
John Wooden -
In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.
Barack Obama -
When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
Vesta Williams