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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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 learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.
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Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour.
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Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.
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It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
