"Being well-mannered and gracious and kind are things that I value really highly."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Vanessa Veselka

#Kind Quotes #Gracious Quotes #Values Quotes

“If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This intense hunger even crosses the threshold of sleep. For we direct, perform and witness performances every night - theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.”
“And when I'm in my car I'm laid back I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat But that's flat”

Source : Song: I Wish, Album: I Wish, 1995
“When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".”
“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.”
“When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.”
“If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.”

Source : Bonnie Fuller (2006). “The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--the Great Career, the Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted (even If You're Afraid You Don't Have what it Takes)”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“I'm always looking for people to feel connected to me and inspired in their own right.”
“The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.”

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