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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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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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 you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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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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You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.
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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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I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that.
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Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.
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These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
