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Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Catherynne M. Valente

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1979

Topics

Morning I Am Battle Mud Soldier Her

I hate going out and being in crowds or being in clubs. I can't deal with it, and I don't like it; I've never liked it.

Hate Never Out Being Going Deal

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

Anna Kournikova

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

Work Hard Work Children Parents Feel

The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark.

Me Impact Remember Dark First Kid

Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life. They're not yours to do with as you please. They're Christ's.

Stanley Hauerwas

Life You Need Years Everything Just

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Smile Action Laugh Drama Cry Us

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

Nature Day Law Every Day Nothing

The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.

Great Crisis Teeth Company Economy

The only way to get to that next peak is to be ready for that next valley. Being raised Irish, you know to always be ready for the bad times.

You Bad Ready Know Bad Times Way

I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like 'the girlfriend' or 'the daughter'. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom.

Daughter Me Thought Worry Look Own

I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I was telling my parents and all my friends and everything. I'm gay, but I'm not going to be on a float or something. Cut to five years later, and I was the grand marshal of the gay pride parade.

Parents Mom Pride Friends Remember

I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.

Life Work Age Actor Old Bigger

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