Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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You can never have enough talent.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.
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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
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I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.
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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
