Victoria Clark Quotes
The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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My hunger is always there.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.
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I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.
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Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.
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What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
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When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.
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The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.
