Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.Catherynne M. Valente
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
Lady Gaga -
Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
Caitlin Doughty -
With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
Kate Christensen -
It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. Watt -
I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
Ed Westwick -
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
Patrick Chappatte -
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
Orhan Pamuk -
I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
Garry Shandling -
The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
Harold Russell -
I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
Jack O'Brien -
I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
Jack Ma
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I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
Dan Hicks -
We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
Irrfan Khan -
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter -
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.
Lea Salonga -
I don't get bothered by fans.
J. J. Watt
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Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.
T. B. Joshua -
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead -
And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.
Catherynne M. Valente