Victoria Arlen Quotes
When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written off as a lost cause.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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I'm not super into sports.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.
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I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
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When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written off as a lost cause.
