Victoria Pendleton Quotes
I thrive on having support around me, even if they are not actively doing something. I feel happier, more confident.
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I Skype my mum every day. Everyone in my family does creative things, so it's nice to have that support.
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People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!
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It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.
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What's done can't be undone.
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I thrive on having support around me, even if they are not actively doing something. I feel happier, more confident.
