Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?
Quotes to Explore
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren't on voter rolls or voted before achieving legal citizenship. A citizenship petition can be denied if they were.
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I like soundtracks and I like film.
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You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
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We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
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I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.
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We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?
