Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I’ve always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
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My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
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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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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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I’ve always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.
