Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
They leave when it’s over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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Always listen for what you can leave out.
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When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.
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My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.
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I commend women who wake up 30, 40 minutes early to put on eyeliner. I think it's beautiful. I'm just not that person.
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They leave when it’s over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl.
