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.

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• You don't know where life takes you.

  

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  • Life
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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.

  

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  • Country
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• I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

  

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

  

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  • 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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• 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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• Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

  

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• I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes I wake up extra early so I can fit in a run or a bike ride, and other days I'll just blast music and jump around or watch a 30-minute exercise video.

  

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  • Up
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• I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.

  

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  • Done
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• I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

  

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  • Small
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• It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.

  

  David Milch
  • Wish

• “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