Valerie June Quotes
I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Garry Kasparov -
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
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I love eyeshadow, blushers, and eyelashes with lots of black liquid eyeliner.
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I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
