Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.

Catherynne M. Valente

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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.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
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• I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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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.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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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.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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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.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
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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.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Care
  • Body
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• I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Care

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • More
  • Recovery
  • Rate

• 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.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Helped

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
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• I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Right

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Love
  • Father
  • Girl

• 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?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Funny

• What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Work
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  • View

• When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Pretty
  • Man
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• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

  

  Chris Milk
  • Life
  • Music
  • Girl

• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Strong
  • Feel
  • Enough

• I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Doing
  • More
  • Talking

• I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best.

  

  David Burtka
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Girl
  • More
  • To Be