I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I...
JAMAICA KINCAID I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want ...
JAMAICA KINCAID I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. ...
JAMAICA KINCAID I'm so used to being misunderstood.
JAMAICA KINCAID I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropp...
JAMAICA KINCAID The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so th...
JAMAICA KINCAID Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery int...
JAMAICA KINCAID this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't...
JAMAICA KINCAID ...be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don't squat down to play marbles—y...
JAMAICA KINCAID I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
JAMAICA KINCAID If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statemen...
JAMAICA KINCAID When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be i...
JAMAICA KINCAID The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they'r...
JAMAICA KINCAID I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
JAMAICA KINCAID I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abando...
JAMAICA KINCAID One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely...
JAMAICA KINCAID One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You ...
JAMAICA KINCAID I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children w...
JAMAICA KINCAID I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one cho...
JAMAICA KINCAID I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americ...
JAMAICA KINCAID When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction w...
JAMAICA KINCAID No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.
GREG KINCAID When we rolled up, flames were showing on all four sides of the building.
PAUL KINCAID Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, ...
JAMAICA KINCAID He appeared with Hillary Clinton at a Children's Defense Fund event in New York on January 16.
CLIFF KINCAID They feel that if they publish these cartoons, they will offend Muslims, causing more demonstrations...
CLIFF KINCAID Chad and Zach are two of the hottest guys on the PGA,
DON KINCAID I think that they're just scared. They're intimidated.
CLIFF KINCAID I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested ...
JAMAICA KINCAID What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became...
JAMAICA KINCAID It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his sou...
NANCI KINCAID Watching the events is free. Everything is open to the public.
DON KINCAID Watching the events is free,
DON KINCAID Tom and I had a few discussions and got an agreement signed. Flowe and the staff at Burningtree have...
DON KINCAID We've got the Hooters Tour's top 20 money winners coming. The Decatur tournament is the tour's stron...
DON KINCAID Most of the players on this tour are younger and some are just an inch away from playing on the PGA ...
DON KINCAID It's shaping up to be the best field in the tournament's 13 years here. You'll see golf as good as y...
DON KINCAID The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
JAMAICA KINCAID People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people wri...
JAMAICA KINCAID They're not going to let that happen again. In order to get back at the administration, they're goin...
CLIFF KINCAID If you remind people that terrorists are actually planning to kill us, that tends to support the cas...
CLIFF KINCAID No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment fo...
JAMAICA KINCAID That the native does not like the tourist is not hard to explain. For every native of every place is...
JAMAICA KINCAID You are not an ugly person all the time; you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly ...
JAMAICA KINCAID We were out three miles on Monday and saw quite a few kings being caught.
JEFF KINCAID I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.
JAMAICA KINCAID The majority of people experiencing a rate increase will reach their maximum by the end of the secon...
NANCY KINCAID Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are slee...
JAMAICA KINCAID In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for...
VANESSA MAE You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
VANESSA HUDGENS My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come ...
VANESSA BAYER The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' wr...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I love the French horn.
VANESSA WILLIAMS I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d...
VANESSA WILLIAMS New York is my home.
VANESSA WILLIAMS You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th...
VANESSA WILLIAMS The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as hum...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ...
VANESSA WILLIAMS A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be a...
VANESSA REDGRAVE The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that...
VANESSA REDGRAVE Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
VANESSA REDGRAVE Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
VANESSA REDGRAVE Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
VANESSA REDGRAVE Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
VANESSA REDGRAVE I've worked with a couple of these really cool, great actors like Ted Danson and Glenn Close. Th...
VANESSA RAY I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the thi...
VANESSA RAY Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.
VANESSA RAY I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
VANESSA RAY I mostly want to be friends with my children.
VANESSA PARADIS You fall for who the chemistry is with.
VANESSA PARADIS I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it ...
VANESSA PARADIS I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or ano...
VANESSA PARADIS I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
VANESSA PARADIS I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them th...
VANESSA PARADIS Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything...
VANESSA PARADIS I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
VANESSA PARADIS I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
VANESSA PARADIS Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
VANESSA PARADIS I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of b...
VANESSA PARADIS Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
VANESSA PARADIS My daughter loves singing above all else.
VANESSA PARADIS If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
VANESSA PARADIS I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely ...
VANESSA PARADIS When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
VANESSA PARADIS Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
VANESSA PARADIS Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it...
VANESSA PARADIS The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in ...
VANESSA PARADIS The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbec...
VANESSA PARADIS In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting ...
VANESSA PARADIS I liked to play dress-up.
VANESSA PARADIS I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.
VANESSA PARADIS Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story u...
VANESSA PARADIS Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
VANESSA PARADIS Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
VANESSA PARADIS I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from pa...
VANESSA MORGAN I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From th...
VANESSA MORGAN My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on ...
VANESSA MORGAN I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but yo...
VANESSA MORGAN I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
VANESSA MINNILLO I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It st...
VANESSA MINNILLO I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
VANESSA MINNILLO I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million q...
VANESSA MINNILLO I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling con...
VANESSA MINNILLO The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've...
VANESSA MINNILLO It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life a...
VANESSA MINNILLO Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a ...
VANESSA MINNILLO My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, Cal...
VANESSA MARCIL Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and ...
VANESSA MARCIL I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
VANESSA MARCIL If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
VANESSA MARCIL Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while ...
VANESSA MARCIL I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
VANESSA MARCIL I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll lik...
VANESSA MARCIL What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty...
VANESSA MARCIL I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when the...
VANESSA MARCIL To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is ...
VANESSA MAE Music will always be my greatest passion.
VANESSA MAE I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
VANESSA MAE But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basicall...
VANESSA MAE I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but trainin...
VANESSA MAE But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest t...
VANESSA MAE All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
VANESSA MAE But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
VANESSA MAE Music is about the performance.
VANESSA MAE Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
VANESSA MAE When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an...
VANESSA MAE The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the m...
VANESSA MAE For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in eith...
VANESSA MAE I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to...
VANESSA MAE People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself ...
VANESSA MAE I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, ...
VANESSA MAE Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it...
VANESSA MAE But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat a...
VANESSA MAE In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
VANESSA MAE I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
VANESSA MAE Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
VANESSA MAE During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. Th...
VANESSA LENGIES I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a cha...
VANESSA LENGIES I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the characte...
VANESSA LENGIES My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; i...
VANESSA LENGIES When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and...
VANESSA LENGIES I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It st...
VANESSA LACHEY With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. Th...
VANESSA LACHEY I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't s...
VANESSA LACHEY I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million q...
VANESSA LACHEY For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally ...
VANESSA LACHEY What I love about Popsicle and the moments I can be with Camden is that their whole philosophy is fa...
VANESSA LACHEY We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsesse...
VANESSA LACHEY My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are...
VANESSA LACHEY Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or e...
VANESSA LACHEY I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
VANESSA LACHEY Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.
VANESSA LACHEY If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.
VANESSA LACHEY I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, ...
VANESSA LACHEY When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they&#...
VANESSA LACHEY Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by tha...
VANESSA LACHEY With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing ...
VANESSA LACHEY It's funny because everyone says you sleep when baby sleeps or you take a nap when baby takes a ...
VANESSA LACHEY I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby B...
VANESSA LACHEY The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free d...
VANESSA LACHEY Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that ...
VANESSA LACHEY I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doe...
VANESSA LACHEY I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did ...
VANESSA KERRY We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our care...
VANESSA KERRY I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly belie...
VANESSA KERRY I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
VANESSA KERRY We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what m...
VANESSA KERRY It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did k...
VANESSA KERRY I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things h...
VANESSA KERRY There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
VANESSA KERRY And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to ma...
VANESSA KERRY You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It...
VANESSA KERRY It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna...
VANESSA KERRY I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leade...
VANESSA KERRY But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the...
VANESSA KERRY I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though...
VANESSA KERRY My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
VANESSA HUDGENS I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
VANESSA HUDGENS I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
VANESSA HUDGENS It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their...
VANESSA HUDGENS If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa...
VANESSA HUDGENS I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that...
VANESSA HUDGENS Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it&#...
VANESSA HUDGENS I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody do...
VANESSA HUDGENS You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
VANESSA HUDGENS Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
VANESSA HUDGENS I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
VANESSA HUDGENS I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like havin...
VANESSA HUDGENS This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has...
VANESSA HUDGENS Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half t...
VANESSA HUDGENS I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by do...
VANESSA HUDGENS I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!
VANESSA HUDGENS I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
VANESSA HUDGENS