Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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I think soul will always find its way into what I'm doing. It just comes from my root.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
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But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.
