Victoria Arlen Quotes

I have these big brown eyes, so ever since I was a baby, you could tell what I was feeling and thinking based on my eyes.

Victoria Arlen

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• Feeling
• Eyes
• Baby

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• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

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• Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

  

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• I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

  

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• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  

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• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  

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• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

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• What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.

  

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• I have these big brown eyes, so ever since I was a baby, you could tell what I was feeling and thinking based on my eyes.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Eyes