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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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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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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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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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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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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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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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
