Vaginal Davis Quotes

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

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• Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Justice
  • Never
  • Given

• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Country
  • Small
  • Author

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Never
  • Forget

• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Think
  • Open-minded

• The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Successful

• The thing about Red Lanterns is that, while they have light powers and they have a power battery, they also have this weird shamanistic kind of blood magic side to them.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Power
  • Light
  • Weird

• The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Music
  • Light
  • Moon

• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Money

• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Political
  • Opinion
  • Growth

• The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

  

  Vaginal Davis
  • Light
  • Advice
  • Given