Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
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You're worth what you're worth
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Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
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It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.
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We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.
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I watched 'Hey Hey' religiously every Saturday night like every other single human that I knew.
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It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!
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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.
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She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.
