Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.
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Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.
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Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.
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You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.
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nisi impunitatis cupido retinuisset, magnis semper conatibus adversa.
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We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.
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However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
