Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Didn't you know? All stepmothers are witches. It is our compensation for remaining forever an intruder in another woman's house.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.
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I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.
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No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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Didn't you know? All stepmothers are witches. It is our compensation for remaining forever an intruder in another woman's house.
