Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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I think whatever you love the most is where you should spend your money.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.
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I never wear suits.
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
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I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.
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If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.
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I prefer intellect and charm.
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To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
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I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'
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If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
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I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
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You see a lot of European influence coming in with bigger guys having a larger skill set, shoot the ball, handle the ball, pass the ball. I'm hoping that'll develop into something I can do.
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I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.
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And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight
