Victoria Arlen Quotes
I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk, eat, move my arms.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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My mother was always supportive.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way.
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It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
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You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
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My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
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Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
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I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk, eat, move my arms.
