Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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I've had so many injuries.
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It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
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In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled.
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We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
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Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution.
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If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
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People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
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Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.
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'The Hobbit' was one of the first biggish books I ever read. I remember vividly the 'riddles in the dark' passage, and it meant a lot to me to finally get to play it after all these years.
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Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
