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 simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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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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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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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'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
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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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Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.
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I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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The actors feel that the music played before the curtain rises will put the audience in the wrong mood. The playwright suggests that the (purposefully lugubrious) music be played at twice-speed. This peps it up somewhat while retaining its essentially dark and gloomy character. The actors listen carefully, and are pleased.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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.
