Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Caitlin Flanagan -
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap -
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
Ioan Gruffudd -
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Carl Spitteler -
My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
Yoko Ono
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
Xavier Samuel -
I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld -
I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
Salma Hayek -
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
Magic Johnson -
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
Sam Graves -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
Barbara Deming -
It's like deja-vu, all over again.
Yogi Berra -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
Tahl Raz -
I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
Paris Hilton -
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
Tamara Feldman
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I love my country so much.
Barry Lam -
I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.
Danny Masterson -
I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White -
The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.
Elliot Ackerman -
Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
Catherynne M. Valente