Meredith Vieira Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
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I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.
