Valerie Faris Quotes
I love it when I see somebody else make a great film. I think there is a great supportive film community, even though the awards seem to do something weird to that.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.
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Every day is a brand-new, completely crazy fantasy-adventure, where I'm either kicking ass or kicking balls. It's all part of the job. All of that is really fun for everyone. It plays like a comic book superhero.
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A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.
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My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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I love it when I see somebody else make a great film. I think there is a great supportive film community, even though the awards seem to do something weird to that.
