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.'
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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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.
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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.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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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.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
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I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.
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I received an impassioned letter from Sonoko. There was no doubt that she was truly in love. I felt jealous. Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?
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When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.
