Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.Catherynne M. Valente
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
Qandeel Baloch -
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Ira Glass -
My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
Mandy Patinkin -
I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
Jack O'Connell -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
Odette Annable -
I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
Cameron Dokey -
People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
E. L. Doctorow -
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
C. S. Lewis -
I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
Naomi Judd -
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
Walt Mossberg
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
Forest Whitaker -
The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
Jacob Bronowski -
We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of caste and class. We are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats.
Benito Mussolini -
Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.
Lindsey Stirling -
I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.
Mark Indelicato -
I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'
Adam Schlesinger
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Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
Pico Iyer -
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true...
Michael Jackson -
I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.
Finn Jones -
Every man's actions belong to him.
Ben Harper -
In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids
H. R. Giger -
I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
Catherynne M. Valente