Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Histories are instruments of oppression.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

  

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• One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • You
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• To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Up
  • World
  • Thought

• I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

  

  Neko Case
  • Time
  • House
  • Free

• It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Life
  • Fate

• You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Average

• Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Shoes
  • Pedestal
  • Platforms

• When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

  

  Epictetus
  • Theatre
  • Wise Men
  • Airs

• It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

  

  William P. Young
  • Action
  • Remarkable
  • Insignificant

• You're the best athlete I've seen in high school.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • School
  • High
  • Athlete

• The world will need a Hero, and it might as well be you.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • World
  • You
  • Hero

• There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Depression
  • Piano
  • Instruments

• Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

  

  Nina Jacobson
  • Direction
  • Oppression
  • Defies

• I feel like I would be a hypocrite not to use my platform to speak up for people who are facing oppression in this country. I did it and I still do it because I believe it's worth letting people know that if we do this together, if we stand up together we can make change.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Change
  • I Believe
  • Oppression

• Histories are instruments of oppression.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Instruments
  • Oppression
  • Histories