Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
-
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
-
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
-
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
-
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
-
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
-
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
-
I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
-
There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
-
Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
-
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
-
I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.
-
I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
-
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
-
In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
-
I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
-
I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
-
Anything salty and crunch is a world of perfection to me. Put chips in front of me, and I will eat to the bottom of the bag. Because I have the tendency to do this, I found these amazing Eden Brown Rice Chips. They're the perfect amount of salt and crunch, and there's nothing in them.
-
Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.
-
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.
-
There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
-
The centre of gravity should be the United Nations.
-
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
-
That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no.
