Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
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Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
