Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I enjoy writing. Publishing... not so much. I've been lucky to work with some very talented people in the publishing world, and the print industry has allowed me to write full time.
J. A. Konrath
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My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
Kacy Catanzaro
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
Carl Sagan
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It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying 'How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.'
L. Ron Hubbard
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Engels once called the British army the most brutal army. During the Second World War, the German fascist army surpassed the barbarism of the British army. No human brain could ever imagine more diabolic and terrible cruelty then those done by the Hitler gangsters at that time. But in Korea, the Americans have far exceed the Hitlerites!
Kim Il-sung
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And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
Christo
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Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.
Marion Ross
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Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
John Wesley
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There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.
Halima Aden
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The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.
Walter Kirn
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The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
Stanley Robert Vinton
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Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.
Catherynne M. Valente