Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
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...And it was about four or five hours later that Alice - Remember Alice? It's a song about Alice.
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Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
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Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.
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For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.
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I denounce Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric, and he knows exactly what he is doing.
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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
