Victoria Strauss Quotes
Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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If you like looking at 'Starry Night' or water lilies or whatever, then why does it matter if it's an original? If the artist is still alive, and you want to support them, I get it. But if you want some famous dead guy's work, that's just a way for rich people to show off. It's the upper-class version of driving a giant Hummer.
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In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don’t.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.
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I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
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She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kind of the reason she named me Billie. It's not about being a strong woman - it's about being a strong person.
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I'm the type of person where, A., I look at things as challenges, I like challenges and, B., I truly believe that you determine your own destiny.
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Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
