Victoria Abril Quotes

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

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• You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Best
  • Start
  • Tradition

• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Said

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Way
  • Need

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • You
  • Know
  • Something

• Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Partner

• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Question
  • Poetry

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Uncertainty

• Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

  

  Kate Millett
  • Place
  • Privacy
  • Keeping

• When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
  • Design

• I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Way
  • Myself
  • View

• People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller," and it would really aggravate me. I thought I was a one-trick pony, and people had seen the trick. Now that things have worked out and I've gone on to other things, I'm really pleased that people enjoy it.

  

  Alan Ruck
  • People
  • Boy

• It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Home
  • Together
  • Try

• Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Great
  • Friends

• I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

  

  Victoria Abril
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