Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
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The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.
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Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.
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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.
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I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
