Vivienne Ming Quotes
Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?
Quotes to Explore
-
Tone can be as important as text.
-
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
-
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
-
I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
-
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
-
I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
-
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
-
The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
-
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-
The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
-
There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
-
When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
-
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
-
I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
-
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
-
I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.
-
I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
-
I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
-
Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it's always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.
-
We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.
-
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
-
We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.
-
I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
-
Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?
