Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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Reality is what you can count on.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.
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I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?
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Small projects need much more help than great.
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
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She is my wife and I am her own and you were not invited. Leave us alone.
