Victoria Arlen Quotes
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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Financing is always the hard part, especially if you don't have friends or family to back you, which was my case and the case for most designers.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Live life to the fullest no matter what.
