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.
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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.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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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.
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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.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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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.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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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.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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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.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.
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I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.
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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
