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.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Lawyer

• 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.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Ups And Downs
  • Ups

• I think punditry serves no purpose.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Purpose
  • I Think

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Book
  • True

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Childhood
  • Early

• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Law
  • Foundation
  • Stability

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• 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.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Game
  • Small
  • Me

• There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Evil
  • Series
  • Lucas

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Woman
  • Clothes
  • Jeans

• 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.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Church

• Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • I Can

• What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Believe
  • Family
  • School

• Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Lies

• When I left drama school, saying you were going to the RSC made you a laughing stock.

  

  Victoria Hamilton
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