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.

Quotes to Explore
-
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
-
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?'
-
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.
-
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
-
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
-
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.
-
I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
-
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.
-
I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
-
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!
-
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.
-
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
-
I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
-
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
-
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
-
I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.
-
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.
-
As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.
-
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
-
I really prayed and asked God for my first film.
-
There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.
-
It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.
-
The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.
-
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.