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Valerie June Quotes

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Valerie June

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1982

Topics

Me Guitar Learn Back Guilty Play

Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.

Anderson Silva

People Up Where Policeman Most Were

You should definitely stay true to your own style.

Megan Mullally

Style You Stay True True Own Stay

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Jefferson Davis

Constitution Property Slave Southern

I drink a lot of juice and eat a lot of vegetables.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Vegetables Drink Juice Eat Lot

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

Amity Gaige

Family Mother City Army Born She

When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

Rivers Cuomo

Life Work Me Rock Star You Artist

India has the best opportunity ahead of us.

Masayoshi Son

Opportunity Best India Ahead Us

The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.

Mary Lou Jepsen

World Information News Now Digital

Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.

Molly O'Keefe

I Am Reading Reality Nothing More

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Cheryl Strayed

Human Writer Much Learned Both

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Culture Simplicity Extreme Partial

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

Clint Smith

Life Freedom You Country Forget