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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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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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.
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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.
