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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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.
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I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
