Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.
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To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
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Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
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I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.
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When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
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The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.
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That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
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The noble must make humility his root.
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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
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Opposites are complementary.
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Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.
