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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Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
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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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Marriage can be complicated.
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The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.
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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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Andrés Segovia is looking up at the morning sky. Tears are streaming from his eyes. He wants to live in this sun all the days of his life. He is suddenly afraid of spending years and years in prison. Perhaps he deserves to be punished. But in this one second of clarity, he wants to become that old word he heard long ago. Emancipated. He is thinking that he will never be worthy of that word.
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My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.
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Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.
