Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.Catherynne M. Valente
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
R. Kelly -
I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
H. G. Bissinger -
One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
Camila Alves -
I want to be judged on my own merits.
Park Geun-hye -
I don't want to be a bust.
Malik Jackson -
Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
Callie Khouri
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
Victoria Principal -
I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
Gail Sheehy -
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
Vera Wang -
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard -
All the things that are in the past are in the past.
Pablo Sandoval
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.
J. Paul Getty -
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm shocked at being recognized.
Dan Stevens -
People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
Tadashi Yanai -
Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
Kate Mara
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Karl Jaspers -
Perhaps the most important contribution to me being centered in the midst of this chaos is my daughter, Krystal Ann. I am very lucky because she works with me and is responsible for many aspects of the business on the marketing side of my career. This allows us to travel together and experience life on the road, seeing the world. Having family with me is very important and grounding.
Yanni -
Any time you can rally, that's something you can build on and you reach back. If you've got a game like that and you're down, and say, 'Hey, remember what we did at Kansas State.
Eddie Sutton -
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Tayari Jones -
All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
Catherynne M. Valente