Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
Catherynne M. Valente
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Zig Ziglar
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
Dakota Fanning
I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
Mandy Moore
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer
If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
Sam Graves
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss
As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.
Karan Singh Grover
I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
OMI
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
Gene Tunney
Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.
Logan Mankins
how anyone could remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without being asked his opinion on them.
Maurice de Vlaminck
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
John Phillips
The Mamas & The Papas
Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
Catherynne M. Valente
