Vivienne Ming Quotes
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
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I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.
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Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.
