Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It’s a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you’re the protagonist, but really, you’re just backstory.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
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I enjoy lifting weights, but I hate doing cardio.
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A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.
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He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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It’s a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you’re the protagonist, but really, you’re just backstory.
