Valerie June Quotes
The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?
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Everything that you do in this entertainment business, you build a fan base.
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
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I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.
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The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
