Vanessa Bell Calloway Quotes
Even when something does not go my way, I get up and fight, that is what keeps me going.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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I've learnt some important lessons: I never rely on the opinion of one doctor alone. I do my own research; I read up and am ready with questions I need answered.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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I never complained about my teammates, and I have to thank them because they always supported me and never allowed me to give up.
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It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.
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Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any trade agreement.
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I just love being in the arts.
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Even when something does not go my way, I get up and fight, that is what keeps me going.
