Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
Laila Ali
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
Walter Cronkite
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
Vernon Duke
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
Mark Strand
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I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.
Napoleon Hill
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To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.
John Arbuthnot
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At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.
Edmund Campion
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
Catherynne M. Valente
