Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
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When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
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Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
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In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
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The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...
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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).
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If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come.
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I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.
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It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
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Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.
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Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.
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I'm kind of glad I got the fumble thing out of the way. Hopefully, that won't come back up the rest of the season.
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Remember, pain is not a test. Knowledge is not enough.
