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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Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.
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We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
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You won't see me doing 'Transformers 5.'
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I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
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Love is a really scary thing and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
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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.
