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 have a very clear view, which is that if you disagree with the policies of Israel, fine, say so, but that is never a reason to take that out on Jewish communities.
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I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand.
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The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything.
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Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.
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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.
