Victoria Arlen Quotes
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.
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To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with the running wave, Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low, But only grave, contemplative and grave.
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You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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We're a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.