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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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.
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The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists
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He tried to get the Caddy to run some of the life-organizing protocols, but they were pretty useless without connectivity.
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It was hard walking around the pitch... You do that when you win trophies. The fans were throwing flags on and that was hard to take, something which put a lump in your throat.
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I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
