Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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I'm here to make people laugh and help them forget their troubles, too! So I just try to bring heart and bring jokes!
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My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.
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I don't wanna get rich - just live good.
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George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.
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The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.
