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Politics & Power Quote by Victoria Beckham

"I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water"

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Victoria Beckham packages her origin story like a lifestyle brand: crisp adjectives, clean optimism, and a little bit of mysticism that reads less incense-and-crystals than boardroom-friendly manifestation. The opening stack - driven, ambitious, positive - is a résumé in sentence form, the kind designed to pre-empt the old caricature of the aloof pop star by swapping attitude for work ethic. Then she pivots: spiritual, creative visualization. That phrase matters. It imports the language of self-help culture into celebrity narrative, turning success into something you not only earn but also summon.

America, in this telling, isn’t a country so much as a mood board: a "positive place" that rewards reinvention. Coming from a British pop ecosystem notorious for its tabloid cynicism, she frames the U.S. as the arena where aspiration is allowed to be earnest without embarrassment. The subtext is reputational triage: if you’re going to be famous for wanting things - fame, fashion credibility, a bigger platform - you’d rather be judged by Americans, who tend to respect the hustle, than by Brits, who often punish it.

"I took to it like a duck to water" seals the pitch. It’s folksy, disarming, deliberately unglamorous. She’s saying: I belong here. Not because I’m trying to escape where I came from, but because my mindset matches the market. It’s cultural translation as brand strategy, with a soft spiritual gloss that makes ambition sound like destiny.

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Beckham, Victoria. (2026, January 15). I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-very-driven-ambitious-positive-person-but-im-148204/

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Beckham, Victoria. "I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-very-driven-ambitious-positive-person-but-im-148204/.

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"I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-very-driven-ambitious-positive-person-but-im-148204/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham (born April 17, 1974) is a Musician from England.

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