Valerie Faris Quotes

We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.

Valerie Faris

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• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Me

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Character

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Music
  • Best
  • Literature

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • War
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Up
  • Die
  • Never

• I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Feel
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Up
  • Day
  • Myself

• I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Books
  • Romance

• We can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Suffering

• That should probably be written:  no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon

  

  Larry Wall

• George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • House

• Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

  

  John Dickerson

• I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Music
  • Healthy
  • Recordings

• Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you.

  

  Charlene Li
  • Technology
  • Conversation
  • Marketing

• We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.

  

  Valerie Faris