Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
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Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
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They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
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You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.
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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
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I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
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When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
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I'm always interested in the challenge of doing something new.
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You can't be wrong in the three-tech position. I like that. It allows a lot of freedom.
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I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.
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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
