Victoria Pendleton Quotes
A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
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I go through phases when I've been filming where I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I'm being filmed.
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Therein lay the secret to all fads: the herd instinct. People wanted to look like everybody else. That was why they bought white bucks and pedal pushers and bikinis. But someone had to be the first one to wear platform shoes, to bob their hair, and that took the opposite of herd instinct.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
