Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
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Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
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I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.
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The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
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A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.
