Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You know how questing goes. You can’t explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.Catherynne M. Valente
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
Yair Lapid -
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. White -
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
Jack Prelutsky -
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
Frances Perkins -
Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
Bear Grylls -
I depend on good editors and a good director.
Indira Varma
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
Karl Pilkington -
I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
Gabriel Luna -
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
M.I.A. -
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
Calvin Johnson -
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence -
I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso -
Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
Otto Schily -
Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
Ian Mckellen -
Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
Walt Mossberg
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The trouser is looser but it's tailored and has a flat front so it doesn't look frumpy, so kids will like it.
Atoosa Rubenstein -
Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
E. L. James -
I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
Olivia Hussey -
Clearly define what success means for you. Set short-term and quarterly career goals with your manager that will help lead you to your long term goals.
Katrina Lake -
You know how questing goes. You can’t explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.
Catherynne M. Valente