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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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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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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People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.
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I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
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If you get it right, it's the most grand thing you could ever do. So many people let biopics slip through their fingers, but the opportunity to play Eazy-E could change my life.
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One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.
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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.
