Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
Quotes to Explore
-
I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
-
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
-
I have never broken a contract in my career.
-
Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
-
My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
-
I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
-
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
-
I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
-
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
-
I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
-
I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
-
I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
-
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
-
I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
-
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
-
I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
-
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
-
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
-
Jared Kincaid: Thus interrupting it. Thus kablowie, thus death.
-
I sure don't miss going out on auditions!
-
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.
-
I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.
-
Every human can be a wizard.
-
No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
