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.

Victoria Hanley

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• 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.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • 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.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Want
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Life
  • Children
  • May

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Watching
  • 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?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• 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!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• 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.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • World
  • Parents
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • 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.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Execution

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• 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.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Leadership
  • Army
  • Lion

• 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.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Live
  • Strange

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • People
  • World

• People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • People
  • Vegas

• Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • May

• I started out as a neurologist. I then trained in neuropathology and was focused on neurodegeneration. So, for years, I studied Alzheimer's, aging, Parkinson's, that kind of thing.

  

  Ann McKee

• The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

  

  John Stossel
  • Bad
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself