Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
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About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
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What is meant by calling the writings of Moses and the Prophets.
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If people perceive 'Roots' to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.
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I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.
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I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.
