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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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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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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I hope that I can be a role model and positive influence to anyone else who is struggling with insecurities within themselves.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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You know, I'm one of millions of undocumented people in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. And in many ways, coming out, it was my way of - at the end of the day, I think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system. And because of that, I had to tell the truth about myself.
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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To cease to love - that is defeat.
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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.