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 always have to be writing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Always

• 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

• In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Mind
  • Psychology
  • Map

• 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

• The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Great
  • America
  • Culture

• 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

• I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Dream
  • Night

• I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • American
  • Proud
  • June

• I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • Respect

• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Self
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• Perhaps the potency of fever, of drugs, of alcohol, or of mania may open up deeps of memory, of primordial memory, that are closed to the milder magic of sleep. The subtle poison in the grape may gnaw through the walls of Time and give the memory sight of those terrible days when we wallowed — nameless shapes — in the primaeval slime.

  

  Elizabeth Bisland
  • Time
  • Magic
  • Memory

• Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school.

  

  Joe Scarborough
  • School
  • Kids
  • Wall

• 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