Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
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He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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When no one knew who Dana White was... Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.
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That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
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The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
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If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you'll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.
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It calmed him to collect the things he knew and did not speak of.
