Valya Quotes & Sayings

I often thought: why do I not succeed in everything? I asked my instructor, and got the answer that brought more confidence in me. "Don't be embarrassed, Valya," he tried to persuade me, "You are trying to accomplish a science which is new for you, the science of being a pilot, and it is not as simple as it may look from the ground. — Valentina Tereshkova

Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic. — Valya Dudycz Lupescu

When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home. — Muso Soseki

Tab and I don't play it that way. You wanna order your old lady around, do what you do, not for me to say. I asked her to go, she didn't go. Not gonna make her. But you try, you'll deal with me — Kristen Ashley

The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in ... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work. — Henning Mankell

Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked. — Brom

People are never able to outperform their self-image. — John C. Maxwell

I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted. — Meghan Trainor

Liberated in Germany by the Americans, seven-year-old Valya Brekeleva and her family of slave labourers went home to Novgorod as non-persons. "Most of the people from our village who went to Latvia survived. But most of those who were sent to Germany had died. For those of us who remained, the suspicion was always there." Most of her family were killed by one side or the other in the course of the war. Her mother died in 1947, worn out by the struggle to keep her daughters alive. She was thirty-six. Her father completed his sentence for "political crimes" and came home from the Urals in 1951, an old man. Even after Valya had completed university and applied for work at a Kazan shipbuilders in the 1960s, when the manager saw that her papers showed her to be an ex-Nazi prisoner he said grimly: "Before we consider anything else, we have got to establish whether you have done damage to the state. — Max Hastings

On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.' — Rhys Ifans