Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I still sleep with my baby blanket.
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Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
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I have several businesses that revolve around fighting: the training centres, the clothing line and all that stuff. I'll probably be involved in the sport in some way shape or form, and I'll continue to train and be active and do the things that I love to do.
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I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.
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It was one of the greatest moments in sports for me.
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It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.
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Modeling is a way for me to continue with my sport, the hours are flexible and you can earn good money through photographic modeling and the catwalk.
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One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me.
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Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.
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As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
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If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.
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Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.
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If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.
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Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.
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Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.
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I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.
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Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.
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On the red carpet, I can be different women with every event and change my style and that's funny because at the end of the day, that's my work as an actress.
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Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.
