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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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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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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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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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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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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It is always your next move.
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
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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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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
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When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.
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I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.
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Cookies at both of them. The cookies are probably better at Letterman though.
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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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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.
