Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse’s tragedy that they can never properly wear one.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material is good, I'm not going to say 'I'm just going to do this' or 'I have to do one of everything.' I'm not thinking like that.
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I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, and hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is 42.
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Horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse’s tragedy that they can never properly wear one.
