Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
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I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
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Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
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We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.
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Regrets are born of paths never taken.
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
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I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't have to prevent us from continuing to grapple with the story at hand. It ideally should demand that we remain engaged with the story.
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People who share a secret share a heart.
