Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.
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My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.
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When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.
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I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.
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George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
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Real gold fears no fire.
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You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
