Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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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 read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
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I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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It is better to watch things then to do them.
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
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Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.
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To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
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There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
