Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Except that her joints ached and her head hurt and it tasted like a vorcha had shit in her mouth.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
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There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
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America is the paradise of lawyers.
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Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
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I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.
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I basically stay in jewelry all the time. I have the same couple of necklaces, earrings, and rings, and they usually don't come off my body.
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I'm not a mean person.
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The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
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We're off the script We're off the lease We can't catch any decent sleep We don't live here anymore
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In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.
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Some people were offended by a show about cougars.
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Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album.
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I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.
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Except that her joints ached and her head hurt and it tasted like a vorcha had shit in her mouth.
