Valerie Martin Quotes
We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing.
Quotes to Explore
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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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 don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
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Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
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There have been times in my life when I have felt like I can't go out without my makeup on. But now I just put on some dark glasses so people can't see if I look rough!
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My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
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We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing.
