Victoria Pratt Quotes
When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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The devil made me do it.
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.
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Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
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A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.
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I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.
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I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
