Vanessa Williams Quotes
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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I'm terribly happy at the moment - someone up there must be looking out for me.
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Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
