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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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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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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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
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In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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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.
