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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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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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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I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'
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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 don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.
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As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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... we can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.
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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
