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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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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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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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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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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People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.
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I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.
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So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.
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The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.
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And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight
