Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru -
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 -
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
Sam Shepard -
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 -
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch -
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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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 -
Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the fuck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
Nile Rodgers Chic -
Blank paper has always inspired me.
Daniel Handler -
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
Maya Angelou -
My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.
Scotty McCreery
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Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.
Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III -
Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox.
Dave Annable -
I got into real estate very much by accident.
Jeff Greene -
Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell my heart what it wanted.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala -
I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.
Jake Roberts -
I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw -
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.
L. Ron Hubbard -
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
Chaka Fattah -
I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
Catherynne M. Valente