Valerie Faris Quotes
'Ruby Sparks' has been sold like a romcom in the States. But we never saw it like that.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
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I love DKNY. I love her sweaters because I can take them and just wear nothing underneath and just wrap them.
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When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.
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II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.
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I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.
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What I do miss is the Jersey Shore.
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Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.
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'Ruby Sparks' has been sold like a romcom in the States. But we never saw it like that.
