Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Think
  • Body
  • Enjoy

• You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Different
  • Care
  • Weird

• The cop in 'Dhruva' had to be much more agile, far more fit and alert than any role I had played so far. I built the body that the role required. If it's been appreciated, I am glad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Body
  • Role
  • Fit

• Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • House
  • Body
  • Room

• I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Body
  • Yourself

• We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Spirit

• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Body
  • Walking
  • Repetition

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Body
  • Architecture

• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Work
  • Body
  • Voice

• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

  

  Ovid
  • Water
  • Body
  • How

• Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Body
  • Ability
  • Grow

• Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Different
  • Food
  • Body

• Your body hears everything your mind says.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Body

• I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Body
  • Diet

• When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Fight

• I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Body
  • Better
  • New

• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Challenge
  • English
  • Language

• What is happening with automation and globalization, that's not going away.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Globalization
  • Automation

• In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight.

  

  Michele Bachmann
  • Millions
  • United
  • Andrea

• We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Body
  • Contradiction
  • Fleshless