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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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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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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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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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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It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.
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And if there were any such, they have never been condemned to slavery by any who are proper judges, or had any authority to act in the affair.
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I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.
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The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?
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When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.
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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.
