Valerie June Quotes
When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.
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Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
