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 had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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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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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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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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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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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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Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too.
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If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.
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All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.
