Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
Paget Brewster
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
Jack Ramsay
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
Ian Doescher
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
Eddie Murphy
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I am very much a Republican.
Laraine Day
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
Rafael dos Anjos
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
Cam
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
Sam Robards
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I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
Lance Burton
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
Omar Bongo
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
Anton Zaslavski
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I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
Ted Olson
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
Ralph Abernathy
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.
Dan Scanlon
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
Lois McMaster
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
Felicity Jones
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All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.
Vladimir Lenin
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A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little
Cleve Jones
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Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also the most powerful, reverberations in the noisy cranial sound-box of consciousness, drowning out more subtle symphonies. Comics scorn finesse, thereby incurring the wrath of linguistic adepts. They defy the limits of accepted fact and convention, thus amortizing to apoplexy the ossified arteries of routine thought.
William Moulton Marston
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I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.
Catherynne M. Valente