Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Love
  • Business

• What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.

  

  Jack Straw
  • President
  • Saturday

• To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

  

  Frederick Delius
  • Color
  • Loveliness
  • Poignancy

• Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Strange
  • Profession

• I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Influence
  • Honest
  • Position

• Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Reality
  • Waiting
  • Easy

• When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Growing
  • Stories
  • Focused

• The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • Truth
  • Church
  • Behavior

• That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

  

  Judith Wright
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Impulse

• The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

  

  Paul Gillmor
  • Government
  • Means
  • Lived

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Look

• Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Company
  • Very
  • Geography

• It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where they spend federal funds. The new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has suggestions like computer science, health, foreign language and geography. So there's no guarantee the arts will now flourish. Arts advocates are ready to help states and school districts with their plans.

  

  Elizabeth Blair Lee
  • Science
  • Education
  • Plans

• When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.

  

  Thelma Houston
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Might

• Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Geography
  • Fluid
  • Unreliable