Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

She was determined that I hold this thing inside me like a heart - something irremovable and constant.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
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• A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

  

  C. S. Forester
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• I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  

  Mae West
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• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
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• I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

  

  Indiana Evans
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• I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• 'I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
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• I had a brother once, he drowned in a bathtub,before he'd ever learned how to talk.And I don't know what his name wasbut my mother does,I heard her say it once, she said,'Padraic, my prince, I have all but died from the sheer weight of my shame:you cried but no-one came.'

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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• She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.

  

  Aleister Crowley
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• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

  

  Lorna Luft
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• Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

  

  Ellen Muth
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• I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
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• One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.

  

  Brian Aldiss
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• My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.

  

  Nadya Suleman
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• Misery loves company.

  

  John Ray

• She was determined that I hold this thing inside me like a heart - something irremovable and constant.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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  • Determined