Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.
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I was sixteen when suddenlyI wasn't that little girl you used to see.But your eyes still shined like pretty lights,And our daddies used to joke about the two of us.They never believed we'd really fall in love.And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyesAnd said oh my my my...
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.
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I've been irresponsible many, many, many times and that has resulted in my being fat.
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I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.
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You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.
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I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.
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Luckily, neither in my Tamil nor in my Telugu movies do I have roles that require exaggerated emoting.
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There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.
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People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
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In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.
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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
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You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.
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The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
