Victoria Wood Quotes
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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We are all terminal.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
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About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
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I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
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I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.
