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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I'm the only person who's uninspired by the Starbucks mocha peppermint whatever-it-is.
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I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.
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I was obsessed with theatre and loving the work of Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, and Howard Barker, people doing real formal experimentation. But 'Road' was the first time I'd read a play written in a very true Northern dialect that seemed to have that excitement running through it.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
