Valerie Harper Quotes

I was a dancer, but I was always a little overweight. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Valerie Harper, and I'm overweight.' I'd say it quickly before they could... I always got called chubby. My nose was too wide; my hair was too kinky.

Valerie Harper

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HairSayHelloAlwaysLittleNose

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

WindBookRealityYouSometimesUp

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

Jessie J

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I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

Jennifer Haigh

WritingLearnBeastWriteOverOnly

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

John Roos

PeopleProblemsUnderstandingYou

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

Amanda Peet

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Years ago, I went to Brazil and fell in love with it. I really like the music, samba, bossa nova, the language and the people.

Johnny Mathis

LoveMusicPeopleLanguageYears

Sure, they can take your binder, but they can't take whatever special thing you have inside you.

Dove Cameron

YouSpecialInsideWhateverTake

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Doug Stanhope

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I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Coolio

TimeWinLoserWinnerYouLose

Growing up, many of us are taught to place limits on what we can accomplish while on earth. We tend to think of things in binary form: either as possible or, more frequently, impossible.

Clemantine Wamariya

Growing UpImpossibleLimitsThink

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

Brenda Blethyn

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Talking is not action. Don't just look at what you say. Look at how you socialize.

Brett Gelman

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