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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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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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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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
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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.
