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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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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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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There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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So here’s a really stupid thing about the world: The trick to looking cool is not caring whether you look cool. So the moment you achieve perfect coolness is simultaneously the moment that you actually, completely don’t care. I didn’t care about the gravitas of that TV show, and the freedom and security and confidence that came with that was a rush. It took me a while to realize that the feeling I was feeling was power.
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
