Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.
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I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.
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The relationship with producers has always, in my experience, been, uhhh - tense. Challenging. But the actors and crew become like family. You're there all those hours - more than on a movie. You come to depend on each other.
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I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
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I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.
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I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
