Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Dad
  • Shape
  • Booty

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Matter
  • Rich

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Saying
  • Class

• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Rock

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • War
  • Give
  • Nobody

• Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • World
  • Today
  • College

• I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Choices
  • Result

• The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Women
  • Real
  • Style

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

  

  Fred Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Sad

• The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Free

• Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Truth
  • History
  • Body