Valerie June Quotes
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
Quotes to Explore
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I've actually been compared to every female singer going from Britney, Christina, Mariah, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, everyone. And they are so different, so I think it's cool that people see me as so many different artistes but I think I'm a little different, yeah.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
