Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.
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Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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Progress comes at a price. You have to be willing to make tough calls and take the hits.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up worshiping, basically. It's crazy to be able to still work there.
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There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.
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I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
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… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …
