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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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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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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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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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We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.
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I like playing a guy who wears pants as opposed to shorts.
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When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.
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As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.
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I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.
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There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
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The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
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People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.
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Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
