Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
I wasn't a great debater.
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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.
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The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
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People who stand in the way of where people are walking - I hate that.
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Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
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The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
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I like the Kardashians. I'm a fan. I watch their show.
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I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.
