Valerie June Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.
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I wanted to earn a living wage and to see something nice about me in the 'New York Times.' I wanted my mother to be proud. I wanted all the things you want and also feel silly for wanting. I wanted readers to say they'd enjoyed something of mine - to see my photo in magazines where I'd seen photos of other writers.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
