Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes
I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.
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There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.
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Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.
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I was asked to speak at a bar association, because there's an upswing on college applications - in general and for Latinos - because of 'L.A. Law.' I went to a couple of functions, and I just felt an energy: It was, you're doing a good job, but do you realize how important it is?
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.