Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.
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There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
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What does not exist must be something, or it would be meaningless to deny its existence; and hence we need the concept of being, as that which belongs even to the non-existent.
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People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them. Of young men, he liked them that blushed better than those who looked pale.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
