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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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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We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
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For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories.
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A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
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People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.
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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
