Valerie June Quotes

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• Fascism is very much a mob movement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movement
  • Very
  • Fascism

• Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Goal
  • Very
  • Become

• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Once

• Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Same
  • Machines
  • Threads

• Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Play
  • Understand
  • Weapons

• People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Me
  • Action

• Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • School
  • Career
  • Past

• If I am elected president, every militant on the face of the planet will know, if you go and join ISIS, if you wage jihad on the United States of America, if you attempt to murder innocent Americans you are signing your death warrant.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Death
  • President

• Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Success
  • Name
  • Generation

• I had been watching 'Home and Away' for quite a while, so joining the cast was quite weird. The show is so fast-paced, and at first it was overwhelming, but at the same time was quite laid back.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Time
  • Home
  • Weird

• 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
  • Small
  • Moment
  • Circle

• Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Red
  • Blue

• The fearless make their own way.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Fearless

• For me it is always the colour, first and foremost.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark

• That part of the air which is nearest to the wing which presses on it, will have the greatest density.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Air

• The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Criticism

• I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Character
  • My Life

• Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Trying
  • Struggle
  • Secret

• That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Long
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'

  

  Philip Schaff

• There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"

  

  Valerie June