Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
“I can never remember my dreams," said the shadow of the Marquess quietly. "You must have had rich, tasty ones then. When you can't remember a dream, it's because a Baku ate it.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
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The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
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I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.
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You see they'd have fitted him to a T.
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Three coins in a fountainEach one seeking happinessThrown by three hopeful loversWhich one will the fountain bless?
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I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
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The more I can be the character, the further I can get away from myself, the better.
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The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
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Electricity can transform people's lives, not just economically but also socially.
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The first telephones cost a thousand dollars and they were about that big! We all remember that!
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“I can never remember my dreams," said the shadow of the Marquess quietly. "You must have had rich, tasty ones then. When you can't remember a dream, it's because a Baku ate it.
