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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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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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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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
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Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.
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We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.
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I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.
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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.
