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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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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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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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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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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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
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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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To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
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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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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
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By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto-that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. ... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
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I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.
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We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.
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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.
