Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
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When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
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I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.
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The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!
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Abortion is the taking of a life.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
