Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Truth is the best defense.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.
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I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.
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Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
