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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If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.
Wayne Rooney
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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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My home has always been show business.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
Yuri Milner
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My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
Victoria Gotti
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
Sam Hunt
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When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
Omar Khayyam
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It's exploding bags, aerosol cansSouthbound buses, Peter PanThey left it up to us againI thought you knew the drillIt's kill or be killed.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?
Euripides
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Along the way, everyone's been saying, 'Make sure you take care of your voice because you're going to want to do it the rest of your life.' And it's absolutely true.
Johnny Mathis
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IF you want to see my monument, look around you!
Christopher Wren
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If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
Kim Cattrall
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Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
Catherynne M. Valente
