Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Criticism
  • Comfortable
  • Okay

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Best
  • Conversation
  • Succeed

• Science is not gadgetry.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science

• I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Try
  • Week
  • Tone

• Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.

  

  Iain Banks

• For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Control
  • Trust

• To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Reflection

• Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.

  

  Lou Boudreau
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Game

• I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

  

  David Bergen
  • Writing
  • Family

• Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.

  

  Alton Brown
  • World

• I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.

  Elliott Erwitt

• I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Time
  • Different
  • Business

• If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.

  

  Ngaio Marsh

• Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

  

  Bobby Keys
  • Golf

• I did not attend the services, because it seems to me, as Pythagoras says, the body is the tomb of the soul and that by being born a person has already begun to die.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Soul
  • Die

• It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Good
  • Death

• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Voice

• And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.

  

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • People
  • Experience
  • Together

• Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Self