Cathy Rigby (Cathleen Roxanne Rigby) Quotes

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Cathy Rigby

• Competition
• Sport
• Grew Up
• Do Not
• Allow

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Moving

• My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Road
  • Supportive
  • Agent

• It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • America
  • Hollywood
  • Late

• Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Popular

• 「吾任天下之智力，以道御之，無所不可．」

  

  Cao Cao

• Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

  

  Kirk Kerkorian
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Game

• The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Important
  • Reading

• For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Ocean

• I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Pinetop Perkins
  • Up

• We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Prince

• From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.

  

  Barbara Lazear Ascher
  • Blood
  • Voyage
  • Moving Away

• But after the intimacy-inducing rituals of puberty, boys who would be men are told we must go it alone, we must achieve our heroism as the Lone Ranger, we must see the other men as threats to our masculine mastery, as objects of competition.

  

  Frank Pittman
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Competition

• When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Grew Up

• I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

  

  Stephen Sprouse
  • Place
  • Grew Up
  • Farmland

• I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Competition
  • Sport
  • Grew Up