Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...
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At that stage my heart ruled my head'.
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Romeo take me somewhere, we can be alone.I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,It's a love story, baby, just say yes.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
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For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
