Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes
I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.
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I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.
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I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!
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I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
