Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Madi Diaz
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
Ian McShane
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
Warren Zevon
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Walter Dean Myers
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It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.
Damian Marley
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
Dan Savage
