Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

But in the end, all wars are more or less the same. If you dig down through the layers of caramel corn and peanuts and choking, burning death, you’ll find the prize at the bottom and the prize is a question and the question is this: Which of us are people and which of us are meat?

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
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• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
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• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
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• The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

  

  Halsey
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• When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • World
  • Bad
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• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Produce
  • Extraordinary

• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• I'm a historian in my own mind.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Mind
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• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
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• It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Book
  • Easy
  • Author

• I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Nice

• I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • You
  • Look
  • Where

• I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
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• I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Live
  • Done
  • Problem

• I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • She
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  • Net

• Chorus of Birds: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing. (tr. Warter 1830, p. 199)

  

  Aristophanes

• They knock Shaq about his free throws. I'm the one that needs to be getting knocked.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Free
  • Knock
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• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • World
  • Reading
  • Value

• It is the fate of 'little faiths' of truth that they, true followers of Peter, whether they be Roman or the Protestant observance, cry out and sink in the sea of ideas, where the followers of Paul, believing in the Spirit, walk secure and undismayed.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Truth
  • True
  • Sea

• But in the end, all wars are more or less the same. If you dig down through the layers of caramel corn and peanuts and choking, burning death, you’ll find the prize at the bottom and the prize is a question and the question is this: Which of us are people and which of us are meat?

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • People
  • Question
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