"Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Queens Quotes #Actresses Quotes #Mixtures Quotes

“The world cannot live at the level of its great men.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.”
“If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.”
“My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.”
“You have to have leadership and you have to also have compassion for all the people you're working with. If the demands of the job start to erode that too much, I really have to take a second look at what I'm doing. We get to tell stories for a living and get paid for it. If we're not showing up most days with an attitude of gratitude.”
“Truth is not determined by a majority vote.”
“Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.”
“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”

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