Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.
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If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.
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I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's really nice is that I don't have a photographic memory, so words get blurred, thoughts get mixed up, and they come out as something new.
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Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.
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The child who hates the parent becomes rigid – unable to let in love. He is so filled with shame that he feels that he cannot take in any further shame. He protects himself by making sure he is always “right.” Such a person often becomes controlling, shaming, and/or abusive.
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
