Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
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I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
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We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.
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Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.
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I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.
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Since you left, Leon, the valet, is always drunk, the rice is undercooked, and my underwear is being stolen. I will come to get you and marry you in any country in the world and you'll arrange a lovely room for me, but without a cask with a golden spigot, because that's been stolen, too. I'm not writing anymore. I'm making my mother cry because I'm in despair. Our separation is driving me mad.
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I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.
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And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.
