Victoria Hamilton Quotes
When I left drama school, saying you were going to the RSC made you a laughing stock.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.
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Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.
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In school, I never really grasped drawing the nude form.
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As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
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When I left drama school, saying you were going to the RSC made you a laughing stock.
