Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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The way I look at it is everybody should have the right to get married, if they so choose.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!
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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
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We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.
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There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
