Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.
Quotes to Explore
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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People don't have to agree with me. They can say, 'My gosh, I can't believe I'm listening to this guy. I can't disagree with him more.' But at least they know that I'm going to fight for things that I believe in. And I don't need to be in formal office to do that.
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A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.
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Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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I get to represent somebody I don't think is getting represented right now. The regular dude: the guy who believes in God but still likes pussy.
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As I've told Tyler, there's not a really easy place between being single and being married for us now. We're just so busy that the logistics of our career make dating impossible. I think I'll find a girl at some point that makes all of the extra work and effort that needs to be put into it worth it. But for right now, I just date my drums.
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If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
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Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.
