Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Spiritual

• Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Better
  • Million

• There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Country
  • Million
  • Per

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Always

• I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Play

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Play
  • Best
  • Try

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Play
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Career
  • Play

• After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Long
  • Play
  • Start

• Everybody in the Olympics is paid. Lindsay Vonn is going to make a million dollars whether she skis or not.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • She
  • Going
  • Million

• I like being able to play women that are growing or aren't easy to love. Maybe they are really likable, but they're annoying because they're not tapping into who they're suppose to be. You're watching them, and you're like, 'Oh, why does she keep making this decision?'

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Women
  • Play
  • Like

• I always use the Rolling Stones as the whipping boy for this, but they still play old songs as 90% of their set, and we would die if that were the case.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Play
  • Songs
  • Old

• I don’t think I’ve said this on camera, (but Ricky Williams) is the largest part of why I chose to come play for UT

  

  Cedric Benson
  • Play
  • Said
  • Camera

• Prince and I happen to think alike.

  

  Vanity
  • Think
  • Prince
  • Happen

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• Music's always going to evolve, and we can't really stop that, so we have to figure out what's the next thing and how we move towards that as opposed to just being like, 'Oh, cool: let's just continue making tear-out EDM hits that are gonna last 2 months, and then somebody else is making the exact same thing under a different name.'

  

  Jillionaire
  • Music
  • Different
  • Stop

• I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Play
  • Lonely
  • Million