Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Firebirds are such frustating quarry. One minute it's all fiery tail feathers and red talons and the next, nothing but ash and a sore seat.Catherynne M. Valente
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Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.
Saina Nehwal -
Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
LaToya London -
My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
Karolyn Grimes -
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
Takeshi Kitano -
Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.
Paloma Elsesser -
Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
Mavis Staples -
When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.
Joanna Going -
It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
Fred Savage -
I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably true of every theater artist. If you really want to see a performance of the show, wait three months.
Brian Stokes Mitchell -
I'm from a really small town, and everybody there drives trucks. They're all farmers.
Margo Price -
If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.
Jenny Slate
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I've always been a good mother, but I've always been in show business, and I've been on stage, and I don't bake cookies and I don't stay home.
Debbie Reynolds -
I was a wedding planner's assistant for years. And I knew I did not want to have a traditional wedding because I had worked a million of them. So my husband and I got married at a sleepaway camp in the Berkshires.
Katie Lowes -
I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.
Alannah Myles -
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
Phillip E. Johnson -
Of course I've felt racism.
John David Washington -
Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight,Through present wrong the eternal right;And, step by step, since time began,I see the steady gain of man;
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We stopped doing the things that got us the lead, both offensively and defensively. You can feel it. You're not getting easy shots anymore.
Allen Iverson -
You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
Steve Martin -
I had a dream once. I wanted to do a line of cocaine off a hooker's ass. That's when I realized, 'Hey, I'm freakin' Zach Braff.' I did it the next morning.
Zach Braff -
Firebirds are such frustating quarry. One minute it's all fiery tail feathers and red talons and the next, nothing but ash and a sore seat.
Catherynne M. Valente