Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.Catherynne M. Valente
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
Karlie Kloss -
Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
Aaron D. O'Connell -
The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
Bai Ling -
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
J. G. Ballard -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
Salli Richardson -
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
Patrick McGoohan -
Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
J. A. Konrath -
I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
Rakul Preet Singh -
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Jack Lemmon -
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple -
If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
Palmer Luckey -
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb -
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Vachel Lindsay -
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
Umberto Eco -
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
Daniel Berrigan
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A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, 'black lives matter,' or 'blue lives matter,' all lives matter. It's not right what is going on in this world on both sides.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
It's always push and pull with a record company.
Mike McCready Pearl Jam -
I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.
Kevin Spacey -
It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.
Catherynne M. Valente