Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

The thing I hate about being dead is you can’t move on. I was in love with him when I died, so I’ll be in love with him till the sun burns out.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
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• I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Girl
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• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Real
  • Man
  • City

• It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

  

  Vera Wang
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  • Exercise
  • Look

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Fighting
  • Body

• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
  • Rest

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sports
  • Really
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• I didn't realize I was in an awkward phase when I was in an awkward phase. It was when I was between the ages of 9 and 11. I was homeschooled. Everything I wore was pink and sparkly. And I had an obsession with headbands. I felt like I rocked them, though!

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Pink
  • Obsession
  • Awkward

• I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Protest

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • War
  • Give
  • Nobody

• I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Alive
  • Disney

• Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Political
  • Matter
  • Conscious

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Feel

• I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Different
  • Really
  • Sarcastic

• There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Kind
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  • Confusion

• As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Life
  • Character
  • History

• Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.

  

  Jennifer Dunn
  • Life
  • Country
  • America

• Isn't that why people keep diaries - to be read by someone else? Why would they keep them otherwise?

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • People
  • Why

• God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Invent
  • Murderers

• The thing I hate about being dead is you can’t move on. I was in love with him when I died, so I’ll be in love with him till the sun burns out.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Hate
  • Being
  • Dead