Vanessa Williams Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Broadway is really my life.
