Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
This is my heart - carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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Love, and do what you like.
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I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
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Stop spending money you don't have.
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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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This is my heart - carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.
