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.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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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.
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Isolationism is over.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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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.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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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.
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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.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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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.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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.
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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.
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I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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Atkins - I was on that for two weeks. All I lost was 14 days.
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there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
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We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that upper register? I doubt it.
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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.
