Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Play
  • Easy
  • Smiling

• 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
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • You
  • Care
  • Example

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Cutting
  • Without
  • Come

• 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
  • Music
  • Song
  • Single

• If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Good
  • Want
  • Newspaper

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Sound
  • Drunk
  • Tongue

• 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
  • Confidence
  • Fact
  • Cause

• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Wisdom
  • Shoes
  • Saying

• My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Public
  • Very
  • Private

• Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Work
  • God
  • Devotion

• In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Different
  • School
  • Together

• If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • You
  • Disappointed
  • Score

• 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
  • Know
  • Thought
  • New York

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Party

• My home has always been show business.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Home
  • Business
  • Always

• 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
  • Different
  • Money
  • Experience

• I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

  

  Amit Bhatia
  • Family
  • Rest

• A major figure of Croatia and the Balkans has disappeared. We have to hope that the elections that will now take place in Croatia ... will help Croatia in the direction of a democratic country.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Disappear
  • Elections
  • Democratic Country

• Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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  • Human
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