Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar -
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
Zoe Kazan -
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown -
There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
Tamzin Merchant -
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
S. Truett Cathy -
I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
Lasse Hallstrom
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
Ted Danson -
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
Nancy Grace -
Reality is what you can count on.
Dallas Willard -
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.
Ramsey Clark
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde -
My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
Oliver E. Williamson -
If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
Dana Delany -
I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
Jack Brickhouse -
I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
Kate Hudson -
The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.
Adam Peaty
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey -
It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.
Mariah Carey -
We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is consumer-facing. For the most part, consumer-facing, technology-driven process, driven sometimes if they're call center or into the sales type of stuff associated with it.
Dan Gilbert -
By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
J. K. Simmons -
We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
Lane Kirkland -
She is my wife and I am her own and you were not invited. Leave us alone.
Catherynne M. Valente