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 knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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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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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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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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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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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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Hockey's my favorite sport.
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You can find comedy anywhere.
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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
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I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.
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I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.
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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
