Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.
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Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know...
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In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you
