Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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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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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
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Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.
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When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.
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I love being by myself.
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The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
