Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

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• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

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• My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.

  

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• Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

  

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• My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

  

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• My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

  

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• I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

  

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• It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

  

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• I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

  

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• Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.

  

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• They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.

  

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• She did not send for him until she was afraid; she was not afraid until he undid her work; he did not undo her work until he was past loving her.

  

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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.

  

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• If she chuses to set free one or two of my slaves she is to have full power to do so.

  

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• Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn’t find anything to complain about.

  

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• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

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• Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.

  

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• I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

  

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• One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

  

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• During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.

  

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• She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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  • Someone