Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
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When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
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Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.
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There are so many factors that go into directing. It's honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.
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I've always kind of made sure to maintain the sense of who I am and never be mean or cruel or snotty to anyone. Because, at the end of the day, it's not going to help you last in the business, and who wants to be around someone like that? I don't want to turn into 'that guy.' That guy!
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Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.
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I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
