Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
He’ll never be good if he can’t choose to be nasty. It’s the choice that makes the good.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
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You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
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I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.
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It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.
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Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.
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President Obama and I both believe we don't have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.
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I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.
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He’ll never be good if he can’t choose to be nasty. It’s the choice that makes the good.
