Vinessa Shaw Quotes

In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Stop
  • Water
  • Dog

• If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Culture

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Want
  • Know
  • Down

• One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Dreams
  • Week

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Think
  • You
  • Inspired

• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Had
  • Few
  • Hits

• I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Work
  • Team
  • Management

• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Character
  • American
  • Strong

• The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

  

  Douglas Alexander

• We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Open
  • Aliens
  • Game of Thrones

• In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

  

  Vinessa Shaw
  • Character
  • Night
  • Party