Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
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Bob Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.
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Square meals often make round people.
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There is no one leader that's going to unify all of Syria that suddenly everyone is going to go, 'Yes, that's a logical place.' They're not unified. They don't have a setup succession like we do in the United States.
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Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
