Vivienne Ming Quotes
Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?
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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.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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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.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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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.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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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.
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I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.
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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.
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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.
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I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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'Monstress' has been hard because I want to keep writing longer, but I can't.
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I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
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My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?
