Linda Vester Quotes
But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.
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I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.
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It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.
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Is this the end of an old adventure, or the beginning of a new; is this the last attack upon a small state or is it to be followed by others; is this in fact a step in the direction of an attempt to dominate the world by force?
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Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths. Then I need all the comfort that practice has stored in my memory, a tenacity of faith.
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But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.
