Victoria Legrand Quotes
People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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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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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.
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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
