Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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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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I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!
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I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.
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Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.
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A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
