Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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As you get older, you get more... genealogical.
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I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
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It is a thought as sweet as heaven to know that in the minds of each of us the may by the fence still blooms in an eternal springtime; that the snowdrop has in our hearts a triple birth, and blooms in three separate minds, faultlessly... So that if all the flowers and grasses and hollows and hills of the old house were razed and mutilated - as they are now, I suppose - we keep them intact in three minds, each depending on the other to supply it with the delicate minutiae of remembrance.
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My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.
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The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
