Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
