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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Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
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I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.
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While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis.
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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
