Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.
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There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
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I don't care about revenues.
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
