Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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You are just your intelligence.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.
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Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
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Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.
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I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.
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Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
