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'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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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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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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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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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.
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My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.
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I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.
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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.
