Victoria Hanley Quotes
As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
-
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
-
I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
-
Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
-
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
-
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
-
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
-
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
-
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
-
My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
-
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
-
I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
-
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
-
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
-
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
-
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
-
When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
-
I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
-
I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.
-
My father's from Pakistan and he has been a secularist all his life. In the Pakistani context, there's no messing with religion. There's been a battle for the soul of Pakistan since 1947 and I have grown up without any illusions about the dangers of religious power in the context of a country like Pakistan.
-
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
-
I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
-
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
-
As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
