Vanessa Williams Quotes
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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In Saudi society, women are extremely respected. I never had an issue with that at all.
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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
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There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.
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Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.
Colson Whitehead -
I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
