Vivienne Ming Quotes
It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't take the path I did, as though not having surgery means you're not really transitioning. No one should feel as though it's everything or nothing.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I get homesick.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
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I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.
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It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't take the path I did, as though not having surgery means you're not really transitioning. No one should feel as though it's everything or nothing.
