Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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If you're famous, you're not free.
Tadanobu Asano -
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
Oscar de la Renta -
With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
Nancy Reagan -
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
Vance Packard -
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Madeleine Albright
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown -
Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray -
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor -
The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
Felix Dennis -
You are just your intelligence.
Kalpana Chawla -
The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
Samuel Larsen
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan -
All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
Nancy Kress -
Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
Rainbow Rowell -
You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.
Kabir Bedi -
Never regret what you don't write.
Abraham Lincoln
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Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
Edmund Leach -
If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell them you're a little monster and you can do whatever the f*** you want.
Lady Gaga -
I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New York, where we had to fight for everything.
Larry Kramer -
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
Catherynne M. Valente