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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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport. Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey.

  

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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