Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

“Am I truly such a villain? Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

  

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• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  

  Irving Berlin
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• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  

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• There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.

  

  Vanessa Marano
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• At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Perfect
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• I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
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• I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

  

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  • Real
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• I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

  

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  • Up
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• Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Point
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• If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
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• Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.

  

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• A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
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• After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
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• Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

  

  Edward Anderson
  • Father
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• I loved multi-tasking. I loved being involved in a lot of things. To me, the more complex the better, and so being a leader of a business to me was like, 'Wow, that's what I want to be.'

  

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• It was an opportunity to spend some time together, have some fun to create some music and an opportunity for Kenny and me to sit down and do some things we wanted to do, ... The time was right and here we are.

  

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  • Time
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• When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe it when Rishi ji tweeted. Then Amitji and Rekha ma'am sent handwritten letters, which I have read more than fifty times. 'Dangal' is a very special film for me, and these are my lifetime treasure.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Work
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• The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Life
  • Mathematics
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• “Am I truly such a villain? Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Size
  • Villain