Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.Catherynne M. Valente
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
Kate del Castillo -
I'm a little angry in life.
Vincent Cassel -
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
Walter Smith -
I'm happiest when I'm moving.
Magnus Scheving -
I am a very selfish person.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White -
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie -
I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
Wendy Kopp -
I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
Yuna -
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
Lady Gregory
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
Indira Gandhi -
I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
Natalie Cole -
Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
J. R. Moehringer -
When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.
Malik Jackson -
It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
Yakov Smirnoff
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One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.
Andrew Taylor -
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
Chris Hardwick -
The world of the Greeks illustrates why visual appearances cannot interest people before the interiorization of alphabetic technology. (p. 61)
Marshall McLuhan -
Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.
Judith Tarr -
To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
E. L. Doctorow -
Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.
Catherynne M. Valente