Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be. But he's so hungry, he'll eat you all in one sitting, and you'll be in his belly, and what will you do then?
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I really hate to write.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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They were afraid if the children were not very obedient they would get in trouble with white people for being uppity or being too agressive. So they were very, very strict. I would say today that we don't need to beat our children.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
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He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be. But he's so hungry, he'll eat you all in one sitting, and you'll be in his belly, and what will you do then?
