Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying. - Radiance
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.
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Every building must have... its own soul.
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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
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In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
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You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying. - Radiance
