Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.
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Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
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I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
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I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.
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I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.
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I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
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I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
