Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
Rachael Harris
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
Karine Vanasse
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When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
Yoshihiko Noda
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It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.
Harold Pinter
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
D. W. Griffith
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Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.
Takeru Kobayashi
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Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.
Laura Moser
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Ye that follow the vision Of the world's weal afar, Have ye met with derision And the red laugh of war; Yet the thunder shall not hurt you, Nor the battle-storms dismay; Tho' the sun in heaven desert you, 'Love will find out the way.'
Alfred Noyes
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Don't stress over mean-girl antics.
Hannah Bronfman
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In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.
Christian Louboutin
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You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs.
Bill Gates
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If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing it, usually you can’t achieve it.
David Goggins
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I'm not in a position to tell anyone anything about how to live his or her life, but I think it's worth noting that no one can lie to us as effectively as we can lie to ourselves. We know exactly what to say! And I do think that women, even extremely smart women, can be very, very vulnerable to men.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
Eloisa James
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I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.
Mark Wahlberg
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“I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
Catherynne M. Valente
