Vivienne Ming Quotes
I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business.

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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
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Every decision I make in Congress will be centered on the needs of the district.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
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I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.
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Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness of Christian writings, the historical character of Jesus Himself.
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I have had a small handful of truly blatantly discriminatory experiences for being transgender, but the vast majority are simply the differences between being a man versus being a woman in science and business.