Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
Catherynne M. Valente
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
Naima Adedapo
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
Garth Risk Hallberg
New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
Natalie Portman
Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
Rachel Bloom
Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
Kate Smith
Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
M. J. Rose
All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
Dan Stevens
I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
Warren Christopher
I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
Sam Hunt
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
Barbara Ehrenreich
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
Maajid Nawaz