Victoria Beckham Quotes
Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
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You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.
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Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.
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Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.
