Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I want to continue to be me and share with people.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Like
  • See

• Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
  • Plan
  • Canada

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• I'm very independent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Independent
  • Very

• Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Blind

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Passion

• I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Collaboration

• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Country
  • Why
  • Said

• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Dance

• As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Actor

• The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • Important
  • Player

• I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Girl

• We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Character
  • Education

• Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Trust
  • Fail
  • Keep Trying

• When I gave signs of protest she nearly reminded me of the money she was giving me. She stopped in time, but not so that I didn't understand: it was like when someone is about to hit you and then doesn't.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Understand
  • Hit
  • Protest

• The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Moment
  • Forehead

• I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Control
  • Fall
  • Cards

• We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Think
  • Someone
  • Shines