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Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.

Catherynne M. Valente

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1979

Topics

Myself Writing Story Hurt New Done

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Jerry Saltz

Work Art Worth Price Nothing Level

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Amy Bloom

Short Fine Sure Been Writer Stories

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

Romola Garai

Past Loved Better Kid Used Lifetime

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

Rosie O'Donnell

Stupid Week You Say Point Going

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Mike Ditka

Life Fitness Best Believe Gift Body

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.

Mohammed Omar

God People Thank God Alive Still

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

Mireille Enos

New York Interesting Doing New Big

I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.

Diane Paulus

Character Sorry Three Ask Audience

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Dee Hock

History Culture Country Now Others

Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical skill comes to the fore in Spain, where everybody wants to play beautiful football. The standards are very high in Germany, too; the teams are physically strong, very disciplined, and very well organised.

Arjen Robben

Beautiful Culture Football Identity

Nothing's faster than the Internet.

Anna Sui

Internet Nothing Faster Than

The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful.

Phil Jackson

Team End Trying Marketing Important