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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.
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A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.
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Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.
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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.
