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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I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
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We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
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You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.
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I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.
