Victoria Smurfit Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
