Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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Faith is important to me.
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.
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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
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Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
