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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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 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 never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.
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In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.
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I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
