Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of. And I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.
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Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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It's about balance. Do a movie that's good for your career, then do a one that gets good box office.
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In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.
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Over the years, I've come to realize that sometimes a ghost isn't always a ghost. Sometimes, telling a ghost story is a way to talk about something else present in the air, taking up space beside you. It can also be a manifestation of intuition, or something you've known in your bones but haven't yet been able to accept.
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When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
