Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
Catherynne M. Valente
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
Ferid Murad
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
Gabrielle Aplin
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
Ian Mckellen
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
Zaha Hadid
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
Garrett Hedlund
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
Samantha Barks
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
Edi Rama
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Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
Faith Hill
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
Kate Adie
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
Warren Zevon
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Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
Lance Loud
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
Dan Webster
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Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
Gary Numan
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While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.
Caitriona Balfe
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
Fernando Pessoa
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Clothes to me aren’t sexy. Like, a dress isn’t sexy. Maybe the girl who wears it is sexy.
Marc Jacobs
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke
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I'm a gypsy at heart. I have a little triangle where I tend to go, which is between Sydney, Los Angeles, and London, and I'm happy with that at the moment.
Elizabeth Debicki
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I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.
Brittany Finamore
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I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.
Elizabeth Rodriguez
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Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
Joseph Howe
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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
Catherynne M. Valente
