Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.

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• I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thought
  • Bible
  • Saying

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Care
  • Daughter

• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Class
  • Few

• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Church

• My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Good
  • Family
  • Society

• I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • House
  • Moment
  • White

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• I read on the Internet that I was dead.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Internet
  • Dead
  • Read

• As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • You
  • Play

• It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • First
  • Feet
  • Three

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• You're looking for a lump in a bag of lumps, that can take some time

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Time

• Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Voice
  • Everyone
  • Deserves

• I think, in terms of corporate philosophy, I've always believed that you've got to treat people in a very very egalitarian manner in the sense I like to treat people on a one-to-one basis. And I like people to take on a lot of responsibilities because I think with a sense of responsibility also comes a sense of purpose.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Purpose

• What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Book

• Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.

  

  Princess Anne
  • Dog
  • Golf

• You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Time
  • World
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