Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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I don't like to get too complacent. I like to give myself five panic attacks per project.
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I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
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The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
