Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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I can cure AIDS, and I will.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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I write what I write.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
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I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
