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 -
When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
Natalie Cole -
How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?
Pat Buchanan -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
My home has always been show business.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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 -
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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Soon enough you can say we made it up just for fun I guess to make a mess cause what’s more fun than other people’s hell
Aimee Mann -
In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
Howard Jacobson -
I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.
Angie Harmon -
I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.
Alice Ripley -
The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet.
Mark Sanchez -
I love theater. I really want to go back to it.
Ben Hardy
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You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
Jesse Ventura -
Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.
Brian Tracy -
I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
Mandy Patinkin -
Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.
Louise Rennison -
Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
Catherynne M. Valente