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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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
Arthur C. Clarke
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In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.
Eddy Merckx
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My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) (6.54)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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As a rule people don’t think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.
Natasha Lyonne
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I love anything leopard print, but sometimes an all over print can be a bit much.
Ashley Madekwe
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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
