Winfried Vahland Quotes
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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Africa is the future.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
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I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.
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My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.
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The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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Be thankful for the hard times, for they have made you.
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I write what gets me off. If I listen to a song and jump around the living room with a broom in my hand, I know that that will trigger the same reaction in other people.
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I need to learn how to stop destroying myself, stop being hard on myself and be nice to myself. I need to keep telling myself that I need to keep wanting something, something nice, something warm[so] I can make other people happy. I can understand other people's pain because I can love even after all that is left of me is gone because I have that strength.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.
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I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.
