Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.Catherynne M. Valente
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
Edmund White -
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
Ira Glass -
But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
Warren Zevon -
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Yoko Ono -
No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I always say the greats just get better.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
Tamara Mellon -
I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
Kate Winslet -
Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
Gary Johnson -
Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
Takashi Murakami -
I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
Venus Williams
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
Federico Fellini -
I blog because I have something to say.
Eddie Huang -
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
Orlando Bloom -
I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
Natalie du Toit -
It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
Iggy Pop -
When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer
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Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.
Gary Lineker -
If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
Olivier Theyskens -
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann -
The thread that has always connected my family was the news.
Tamron Hall -
I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.
Jacques-Louis David -
She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.
Catherynne M. Valente