Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
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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.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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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.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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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.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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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.
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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.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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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.
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After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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He hasn't thrown me a pick yet, but hopefully I can get one because I know he loves to give them out. When you watch any other game they play it seems like he's just throwing them up there for grabs. Hopefully, he'll do that this week.
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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
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I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
