Valerie Martin Quotes

Most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig there own graves with the sharp edge of their bitter loneliness...

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• Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Political
  • Small

• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Doing
  • Turn

• Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• Revenge doesn't stop.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Stop
  • Revenge

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Ears

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Patience
  • Natural
  • Producer

• As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Will
  • Someone

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

  

  Daniel Snyder
  • Time
  • Serious

• I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Power
  • Broken

• I want to hear people say, "Oh, he's matured. He's a grown up now".

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • People
  • Want
  • Matured

• Most people never experience such a passion, that I had been incredibly, divinely fortunate to have found, in a world where most souls dig there own graves with the sharp edge of their bitter loneliness...

  

  Valerie Martin
  • People
  • Experience
  • Passion