Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It’s a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you’re the protagonist, but really, you’re just backstory.Catherynne M. Valente
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
Laura Dern -
I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
Hal Sparks -
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
Majora Carter -
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson -
I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
Karin Slaughter -
In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
Maisie Williams
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
Ted Cruz -
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
Rachel Griffiths -
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
Sally Pearson -
As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
Carli Lloyd -
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
Halle Berry -
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Talcott Parsons
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
Adam Johnson -
I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
Taraji P. Henson -
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Gavin DeGraw -
Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
Iris Apfel -
I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
Dan Simmons
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Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.
Lord Byron -
And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.
Kitty Carlisle -
Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.
Patanjali -
One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
Chuck Norris -
Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
Daya Mata -
It’s a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you’re the protagonist, but really, you’re just backstory.
Catherynne M. Valente