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.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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?'
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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.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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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.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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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.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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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!
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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.
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.
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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.
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As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.
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Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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You put your heart and soul into something, and you really hope that people love it as much as you do.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.
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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.