Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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... and everybody will have what they never yet have had, a certain amount of that priceless boon, leisure-- leisure to sit down and look at themselves, and inquire what it is they really mean, and really want, and really intend to do with their lives.
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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
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The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.
