Vanessa Bell Calloway Quotes
Anytime anybody asks you to do anything that is celebrating you or highlighting your life, just the fact that they cared enough about me, who am I to say no? It's a form of flattery to me and I take those things seriously, because in the long run, people don't have to care about you.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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You have to be so willing to hug and say 'I love you' so much. And you have to talk to every single person individually - which I love doing, but it's actually, like, really emotionally tiring.
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I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.
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Anytime anybody asks you to do anything that is celebrating you or highlighting your life, just the fact that they cared enough about me, who am I to say no? It's a form of flattery to me and I take those things seriously, because in the long run, people don't have to care about you.
