Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
'All little girls are terrible,' he admitted finally. 'but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat'
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
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Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.
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When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
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I'm Italian, but I'm also a little Brazilian: Pirlonho, if you like.
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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.
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'All little girls are terrible,' he admitted finally. 'but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat'
