Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
Dalai Lama
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
M. J. Rose
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
Mackenzie Phillips
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
D. A. Pennebaker
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
T. C. Boyle
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
Sam Claflin
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Malcolm X
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
P. G. Wodehouse
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After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend
Page Smith
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
Larry King
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I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
Douglas Coupland
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I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
La India
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I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.
Brady Anderson
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I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
Catherynne M. Valente
