Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.
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I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.
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YouTube - holy cow! - I can do my career at my own pace. I didn't have anybody to tell me I wasn't ready, and I learned how to self-market and how to strategize. 'Spontaneous Me' had already been up on iTunes, but besides my mom and grandma, no one bought it. Once it was up on YouTube, it went crazy.
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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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In '32 we organized the Young Negroes' Cooperative League and had some degree of success in terms of establishing stores and certainly buying clubs in various sections of the country. I was designated as - I don't know what exactly - I believe it was director. I'm not sure what it was, but it had to do with getting out the necessary mail and all of that - organization.
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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
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Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.
