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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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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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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I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.
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That's the thing about film acting and television acting. You just release yourself and do what is true for the moment, and ignore everybody and everything and all the technical razzmatazz that goes on.
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I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.
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And I swear that I don't have a gun...no I don't have a gun.
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I would maintain that the buddhist world-view, with its recognition of the crucial role of the mind and the inconceivably vast dimensions of reality is much richer and more adequate to philosophical reflection than the flattened world-view bequeathed to us through a presumptuous misapplication of the scientific method beyond its legitimate domain.
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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.
