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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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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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me.
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I'm a big supporter of this product for women. And my relationship with the brand Berlei was so organic. I would go to the store and buy 40 or 50 bras every year because I could only get them in Australia at the time. And then eventually they heard that I would come and take all the stock.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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What’s the difference between being dead and having a boyfriend? Death sticks around.
