Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.
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I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.
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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
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An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.
