Victoria Aveyard Quotes
I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
Irvin Mayfield
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
Victor LaValle
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
Barry Eisler
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
Larry Brown
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
Ed Royce
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Randy Pausch
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
Natasha Henstridge
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
Florentijn Hofman
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
Oscar Pistorius
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Carlos Fuentes
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
Fay Wray
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Life is not easy in politics.
Viktor Orban
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
Imogen Cunningham
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
Wendy Davis
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
Rand Paul
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I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.
Neil Strauss
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg
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What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
Kirk Douglas
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I'd been horse-riding a couple of times, but I wasn't that good.
Craig Horner
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I actually loved Winnipeg. Everyone told me I was going to hate it, but it was great.
Liev Schreiber
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I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
Victoria Aveyard