Victoria Arlen Quotes
I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.
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There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible. Only destruction.
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I speak my mind. I'm not really afraid of things. I actually don't think that's that unusual.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.
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I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.
