Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
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My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.
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I am not a sentimental person.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
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I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
