Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
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Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
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Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.
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It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
