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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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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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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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.
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Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.
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One example that has hurt me is that of Aung San Suu Kyi. I admire her a lot, but her unwillingness to protect the Rohingiya Muslims shows how intolerance has seeped into politics and the level at which it has seeped. It immobilises politicians.
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I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.
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We're a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.
