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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.


Vanessa Brown

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VANESSA FERLITO The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happene...
VANESSA FERLITO The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I e...
VANESSA FERLITO You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don...
VANESSA FERLITO I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
VANESSA FERLITO At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I think that the hardest thing about working with young people in foster care who've been throug...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted pe...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn&...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the t...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every hars...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our fa...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most p...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Fl...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
VANESSA CARLTON If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
VANESSA CARLTON I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel...
VANESSA CARLTON I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
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