Valerie Faris Quotes
It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
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Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.
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It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.
