Victoria Legrand Quotes
The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
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When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
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Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
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My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body.
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The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs.
