Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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How does the GOP repeal and replace Obamacare without cutting the benefits upon which millions of Americans have come to rely?
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.
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I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
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My home has always been show business.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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Soon enough you can say we made it up just for fun I guess to make a mess cause what’s more fun than other people’s hell
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In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
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I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
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Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child.
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Health care is a moral and human right.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
