Valerie Miner Quotes
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I think it's a wonderful thing, turning 50. I think everyone should do it at least once.
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Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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By believing we are the product of random acts, we eliminate morality and the basis of ethical behavior. For if there is no such thing as moral authority, you can do anything you want. You make everything relative, and there’s no reason for any of our higher values.
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Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.
