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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Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.
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I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
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It was because of Henderson that I stayed... It was he and he alone who kept me in Toronto and in Canada. Were it not for Henderson, I believe insulin would have been a product of the United States.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
