Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
Dan Colen -
Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
Ram Charan -
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
Sally Ride -
Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
Natalie Wood -
Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
D. A. Pennebaker -
The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
Oscar Isaac -
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
Warren Zevon -
When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
Larry Wilmore -
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Otto Dix -
I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
Aaron Neville -
He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.
Young Thug
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
Earl Wilson -
When no one knew who Dana White was... Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
Fay Wray -
The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
Daniel Barenboim -
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
S. J. Perelman -
Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.
J. K. Simmons
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
Yahya Jammeh -
I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it.
Victoria Pendleton -
Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
Bertrand de Jouvenel -
The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
Walid Jumblatt -
It calmed him to collect the things he knew and did not speak of.
Catherynne M. Valente