Victoria Wood Quotes
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
Quotes to Explore
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.
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It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
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His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
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I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
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“Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.”
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
