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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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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As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.
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Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.
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Broadway is really my life.
