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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Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
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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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I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.
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My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.
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Working on TV can be quite insular.
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If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.
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In the office, you kind of lose sight. You have to go to the restaurants to see what's really happening.
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I thrive on having support around me, even if they are not actively doing something. I feel happier, more confident.
