Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.
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You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.
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I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.
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For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty.
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
