Will Price
Will Price
William Lightfoot Pricewas an American architect, a pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete, and a founder of the utopian communities of Arden, Delaware and Rose Valley, Pennsylvania...
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I'm not nearly as big as I was, but I attribute that to eating healthy. I'm just not a skinny girl, and I just want to give more opportunities to people like me.
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A lot of times you'll have somebody who could be the most talented person in the world, but because they are plus-sized, they're not even considered for a call back.
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There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.
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My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.
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I was known for being talented, but I was still the fat girl. And it wasn't what people were looking for. There's a lot that you hear. There's a lot of cruelty out there. Some of it comes from the executive offices. It comes from other artists at times. It was a very difficult thing to overcome.
I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.
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As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.
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When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.
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On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.
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There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.
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Our club members will be wearing their T-shirts, and children in grades three through seven will help out as ushers. Our 4- and 5-year-olds will be singing and two of the junior high girls will read Scripture. Additionally, a leader will share with the congregation what the clubs have been doing in the past year.
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Our administration wants to be good in all sports--not just a power in basketball. They've put $1.5 million into our facility and given us the budget to travel and play good teams like Stanford and Clemson. Kids want to play those teams, and you get better by playing them.
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If it was just the two of us, we'd probably jump on it. Any time you make a decision involving six people, it can get complicated.
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If it's the right fit, I'll know. I'm not trying to be evasive. That's the truth.