Victoria Pendleton Quotes
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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Custom is second nature.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
