Ville Valo Quotes
There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
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Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.
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I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.
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My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
