Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She wasn’t angry. You can’t get angry just because the world’s so much bigger than you and you’re stuck in it.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.
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We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
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With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.
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I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.
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You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.
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She wasn’t angry. You can’t get angry just because the world’s so much bigger than you and you’re stuck in it.
