Valerie Martin Quotes
To fear an inner life, she thought, was the greatest foolishness. It was like fearing a breath of air. Why did people find it harder to admit to a universe within than without? Why trust, for a moment, one's own absurd measurement of either?
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
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The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.
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You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.
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To fear an inner life, she thought, was the greatest foolishness. It was like fearing a breath of air. Why did people find it harder to admit to a universe within than without? Why trust, for a moment, one's own absurd measurement of either?
