Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.Catherynne M. Valente
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
Canelo Alvarez -
So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
Hanya Yanagihara -
You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
Larry King -
I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
Dakota Johnson -
A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
Gal Gadot -
I dress for men.
L'Wren Scott
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
Idris Elba -
I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
Hannibal Buress -
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
Barack Obama -
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
Rachel Hunter -
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
Tana French -
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
Frances Wright -
Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
Barton Gellman -
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Dalai Lama -
When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
Ted Cruz
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Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
Ada Louise Huxtable -
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes -
At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
Agnes Varda -
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
Victoria Secunda -
I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.
Catherynne M. Valente