Valerie Martin Quotes
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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I'm constantly on the go and have found rushing round after a new born baby is the best form of exercise! I always remind myself that men appreciate a womanly shape and some curves!
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.
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Right now, our offense is really putting everyone else on its back and carrying us. There's going to be a time when the pitching is going to put everybody on its back and carry us. I just think it's important to note that for us to win a championship, everything has to be going in the right direction. I think that's right around the corner.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
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And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.
