Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I never thought about being famous.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.
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That's a huge part of being a human being: looking for love and finding a partner in this world. When you constantly play characters who don't have that life, it feels incomplete and not totally human.
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There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.
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She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.
