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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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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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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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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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 spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
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Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.
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It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
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I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
