Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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Time will change who is in power.
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So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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I'm insanely proud of every single one of my credits until the people who created the shows are dead.
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Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
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Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
