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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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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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.
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Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
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I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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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.
