Mike Vallely (Mike V) Quotes
We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
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I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.
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You cannot be creative with people around you.
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Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.
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God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
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One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.
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We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.
