Victoria Arlen Quotes
I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
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We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
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Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
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If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
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I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.
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I think there's a lot of people going through different things where you feel like your whole world's imploded, and you feel like you lost it all, whether it's physical, emotional, whatever you're going through. If I can be that beacon of hope for people that need it the most through dancing and through our storytelling, then I've done my job.
