Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
Sam Shepard
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
Natalie Cole
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How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?
Pat Buchanan
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
Anton Zaslavski
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
Pat Burns
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
Nat Turner
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch
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My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.
Lady Gaga
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Ramakrishna
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I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
R. J. Cutler
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
Pat Robertson
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Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
Dara Khosrowshahi
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The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.
Ze Frank
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
Nana Mouskouri
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When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
Park Chan-wook
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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Bill Gates
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Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
Catherynne M. Valente
