Vera Wang Quotes
That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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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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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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I always drive like a madman.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
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Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999.
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People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
