Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
-
I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
-
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
-
My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
-
I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
-
Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
-
My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
-
When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.
-
I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
-
I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
-
I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.
-
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
-
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
-
I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.
-
The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.
-
I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
-
There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
-
The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
-
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
-
The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.
-
I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.
-
As important as it is for the producers to pay more attention to the female roles, it's more important for us to take control over this situation and define who we are. Because if they just give us the parts, it's their point of view of who we are. What's important is that we define who we are and don't wait for the men to give us the roles.
-
In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.
-
Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back.
