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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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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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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I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.
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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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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
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I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the intensity that I play with.
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I remember meeting my manager Eamonn for the very first time, and one of the first things he said to me was, 'You're fat. The first thing you need to go is get to a gym.' It was quite a wake-up call. I got a bit angry initially, like, 'The cheek of him', but I'm quite a pragmatic and thick-skinned person, so I just went ahead and joined the gym.
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
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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.
