Valerie Bertinelli Quotes
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Value is what you get.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
