Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley -
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
Barbara Sukowa -
I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
Vaclav Klaus -
I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker -
To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
Kate Hudson -
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
Camille Paglia
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
Vanessa Paradis -
A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
Ed Royce -
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
Vince Cable -
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
Edmund White -
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
Cameron Diaz
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
Jack Nicklaus -
I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
Sam Waterston -
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble -
I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
Nadine Gordimer
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Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.
Kenneth Lonergan -
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
Charles Cumming -
You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.
Kevin Spacey -
When I write, I imagine places more than people.
Paula Hawkins -
The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported.
David Cameron -
People who share a secret share a heart.
Catherynne M. Valente