Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.
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I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my 'accomplishments' from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.
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Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.
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I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.
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I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.
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Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.
