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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated.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 -
I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.
Tavi Gevinson
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
Yuna -
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
S. J. Perelman -
Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.
Carla Gugino -
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
Barry McCaffrey -
I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
Ian Somerhalder -
I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
Jack Lemmon
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Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
Pat Buchanan -
You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.
Natalie Massenet -
We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.
Clare Wright -
Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.
Barbara Delinsky -
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