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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When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.
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Have you ever been with a girl, you had an argument and you wanted to make up with her? As long as you say nothing, you can make up with her. If you say something, it's going to be another argument, you are going to get no pussy and you go to bed mad. But if you don't say nothing, it gets closer and closer, y'all make love and it's all expressed through love.
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I think a role model is a person who says, 'This is who I am.'
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.
