Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
What’s the difference between being dead and having a boyfriend? Death sticks around.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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Great, you ruined my life and you don’t even remember it.
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The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
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The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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What’s the difference between being dead and having a boyfriend? Death sticks around.
