Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.
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My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight, but I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate.
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All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
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I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
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Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
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The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.
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When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.
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You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good.
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Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.
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When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.
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I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.
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I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
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From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.
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We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.
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Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I had the poster of 'Hairspray' right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron, of course.
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I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute.
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Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
