Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
Ian Mckellen
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
Malik Jackson
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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
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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
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The alarm on my wife's phone is 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered,' so that's a great way to wake up.
Andy Grammer
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More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.
Chad Hurley
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I don’t want to torture anything. … it’s about trying to live a life where I’m not contributing to the cruelty in the world. … While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here.
Jessica Chastain
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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
Ann Cotton
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You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.
Catherynne M. Valente
