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 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 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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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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When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
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A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.
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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.
