Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.Catherynne M. Valente
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube -
I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
Nadia Comaneci -
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Dan Brown -
To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
Queen Latifah -
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
Naomi Wolf
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
Jack Dangermond -
When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
Candis Cayne -
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu -
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
Nas -
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Salman Rushdie -
Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.
Oswald Chambers
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
Katharine Hepburn -
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
Albert Warren "Tillie" Tillinghast -
The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.
Brian Tracy -
As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
Gayle Forman -
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
C. V. Wedgwood -
But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.
Catherynne M. Valente