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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• 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.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• 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.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• 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.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Important
  • Stuff
  • Notes

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • American
  • Culture

• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Style
  • Boy
  • Gay

• 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.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Said
  • Obsession
  • Costs

• Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Most
  • Singer
  • Voices

• We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Change
  • Anything
  • Accept

• 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.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Different
  • Talent
  • Texas

• 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.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Mother

• After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Happy
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Angus Young
  • People
  • Sick
  • Tired

• Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

  

  James Buchan
  • Violence
  • Profound

• I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.

  

  Christopher McQuarrie

• The Last Arrow transcends a moment or an issue. It is a call to move beyond self-indulgence to a life of sacrificial service. In The Last Arrow I address a broad spectrum of issues from the Syrian refugee crisis to the cultural epidemic of depression to the personal struggle of insignificance. The Last Arrow is a clarion call to make a difference in the world rather than a self-help book for personal self-improvement.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Depression
  • Crisis
  • Issue

• Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

  

  David K. Shipler
  • Great
  • Song
  • Spiritual

• XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Giving

• I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'

  

  Amber Valletta