Victoria Strauss Quotes
Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.
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The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.
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I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
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Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.