Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
Caitlin Flanagan
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
Laura Prepon
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
Gay Talese
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
Parminder Nagra
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I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
Laura Marano
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
J. K. Simmons
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
Madison Marlow
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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
Wayne Shorter
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
Xavier Dolan
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I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'
Nancy Pelosi
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I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!
Indiana Evans
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She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep.Prayers didn’t do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)
Nalo Hopkinson
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She had come to Aka to learn how to sing this world's tune, to dance its dance; and at last, she thought, away from the city's endless noise, she was beginning to hear the music and to learn how to move to it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Her left hand reminded her of its existence, and she looked round to see what was scratching the heel of her hand. It was a tiny thistle, crouched in a crack in the sandstone, barely lifting its colorless spikes into the light and wind. It nodded stiffly as the wind blew, resisting the wind, rooted in rock. She gazed at it for a long time.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
Amy Tan
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I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.
Charli XCX
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
Lorna Luft
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I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
Robert Baden-Powell
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It blows my mind that there are people out there who deny the holocaust. Why would you ever deny such a great achievement. It's like denying the cure for polio or something.
Zach Braff
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He that fears death loses the joys of life.
Jan Hus
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I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.
Vladimir Kramnik
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She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
Catherynne M. Valente
