Valerie Plame Quotes

When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.

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• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
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  • Distance

• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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  • Independent
  • Lucky

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
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  • You
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• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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  • Afraid

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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  • Morning
  • Waiting

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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  • Questions
  • Damage

• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
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  • Never
  • Process

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Fruit
  • Seed

• My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

  Kate Chopin
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• I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

  

  Sally Rand
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  • Foreign

• I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
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• That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

  

  Rachel True
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• 'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
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• I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
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  • Family
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• I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

  

  G-Eazy
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  • Yourself

• I can be a tennis player, a golf player, and even a soccer player.

  

  Deontay Wilder
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  • Golf
  • Tennis

• We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Live
  • Environment

• People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.

  

  Christa Miller
  • People
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• When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very small circle knew where I really worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
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