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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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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To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
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If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. … Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.
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They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.
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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
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Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
