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.
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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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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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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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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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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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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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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It is always your next move.
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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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It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
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Fashion tells about who you are from external point of view.
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Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
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I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
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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.
