Victoria Arlen Quotes
Winning gold and three silver medals at the Paralympic games is something I'll never forget, but I knew deep down there was still more work to do. I had to continue to redefine what was possible and get back everything that was taken away from me.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
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Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.
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An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time.
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You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
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If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
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Winning gold and three silver medals at the Paralympic games is something I'll never forget, but I knew deep down there was still more work to do. I had to continue to redefine what was possible and get back everything that was taken away from me.
