Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Didn't you know? All stepmothers are witches. It is our compensation for remaining forever an intruder in another woman's house.Catherynne M. Valente
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth -
Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
Patricia Clarkson -
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
Ted Turner -
Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
Nas
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
Becki Newton -
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
Adam Mansbach -
The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
Gabby Douglas -
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles -
I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
Kate Moss -
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
Wallis Simpson
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
Tarja Halonen -
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
Gary Oldman -
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
Warren Farrell -
'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
Ted Sarandos -
My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
Zhang Yin
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin -
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
Barry Diller -
I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
Halle Berry -
I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. Although I do like 'The Last House on the Left,' and things like that, I do like these ridiculous monster movies.
Ken Marino -
Didn't you know? All stepmothers are witches. It is our compensation for remaining forever an intruder in another woman's house.
Catherynne M. Valente