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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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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.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• 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

• There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

  

  Jenn Suhr
  • Important

• The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Real
  • Together
  • Collaboration

• I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since we were 15 and 16 years old, and we both ended up at Carnegie Mellon together. He started working for a producer out of school after a few years, and then we started the company together.

  

  Zachary Quinto
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• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Government
  • Dying

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

  

  Victoria Hamilton
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