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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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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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."
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The lesson is clear: estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. ... The world in our heads is not a precise replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages to which we are exposed.
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
