Valerie Miner Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'
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As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those '80s hair-band CDs behind - which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.
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I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
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Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.
