Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes
I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.
Quotes to Explore
-
Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
-
Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
-
The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
-
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
-
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
-
The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
-
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
-
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-
We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
-
I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
-
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
-
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
-
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
-
It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
-
I don't worry about the things I can't change.
-
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
-
Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
-
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.
-
A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.
-
I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
-
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
-
As an actor, people are always criticizing you so it just made me fall in love with myself.
-
I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.
