Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
Taissa Farmiga
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Revenge doesn't stop.
Daniel Craig
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All I've done all my life is disobey.
Edith Piaf
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
Dan Hill
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
G-Eazy
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As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
T. D. Jakes
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully
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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
Natalie Imbruglia
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Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.
Kate Christensen
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
Tatum O'Neal
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
D. H. Lawrence
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Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
Alan Rudolph
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I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
LZ Granderson
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I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Danica McKellar
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If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
Claude Pepper
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It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.
Angus Young
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You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.
Catherynne M. Valente
