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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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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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Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.
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He liked everything about the university except the students.
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
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The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.
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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.
