Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
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Surely you didn't think deathless meant dickless.