Valerie Martin Quotes
(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.
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It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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So now the devil's in my soul.
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You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
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Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are.
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There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.
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If you lose faith, you lose all.
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What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
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(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.
