Amber Valletta Quotes
I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.
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I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
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I'm sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
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The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.
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California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
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I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'
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When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'
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I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'
