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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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
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What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.
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You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
