Victoria Legrand Quotes

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Time
  • Health
  • Day

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Real
  • Me
  • Husband

• My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • She
  • Mother

• I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Old

• A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Single
  • Play
  • Football

• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Done
  • Fear
  • Spirit

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Political
  • Religious
  • See

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • London

• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Musicians

• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Force
  • Insecurity

• The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • Business
  • American
  • Community

• My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Parents
  • College
  • Teacher

• Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • King
  • Inequality
  • Racial

• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Woman

• People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
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