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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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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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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At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only thing that has changed for me.
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You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.
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I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
