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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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.
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Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up for Album of the Year, that's when I started to be like, 'What in the world, this is crazy!' That one really got me in a pretty different way.
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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.
