Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
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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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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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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 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 wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
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Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
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A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
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Americans love to read about violence.
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The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.
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I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
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I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.
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Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
