Jessica Valenti Quotes
There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.
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I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.
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In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
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I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
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My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me.
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There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.
