Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do - so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
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I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.
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When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.
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I call myself a geriatric starlet.
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.
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Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.
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I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.
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If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.
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Sometimes 'Portlandia' can be pretty traditional. But the stuff I've always loved on 'SNL' has always been the weirdest stuff I've done. The stuff that went on at 10 to 1 in the morning.
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.
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That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do - so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.
