Vivienne Ming Quotes
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
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I don't need to impress children.
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I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.
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Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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I have people say, 'I'll come to work for you for free,' and I tell my employees they have to compete with that.
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It's the WWE; it's Vince McMahon's show. He lays out what he wants from you. It's not always going to be what I want.
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I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course for me as well, so in a sense, I'm hopefully learning as much as my students are - or at least discovering or re-discovering as much as they are. I find that when I teach, I'm reminded of my own sort of failings. I'm reminded of where I sometimes keep going wrong.
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“Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success”
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There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?
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What drives success, and the most successful students, is internal motivation.
