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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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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We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.
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I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
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Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
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New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
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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.
