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've always been fond of acoustic music.
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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 have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
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I love fashion, but I don't really do shopping.
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Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
