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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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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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 hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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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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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
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It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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I want all my films to do well.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.
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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.
