Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
Neko Case
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It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
Iain Sinclair
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You become the average of the five people you hang out with.
Drew Houston
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
Vivienne Westwood
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When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.
Epictetus
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It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
William P. Young
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You're the best athlete I've seen in high school.
J. M. Roberts
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See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.
Etta James
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There was, like, a point where music was slow for me, like '09. I wasn't getting that much work.
Hit-Boy
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Efficiency, Peter said, is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.
Bob Buford
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Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.
Winston Marshall
Mumford & Sons
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The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.
Ry Cooder
Buena Vista Social Club
