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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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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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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Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.
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Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it.
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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
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Men are more mechanical when we cook. Women are more attached. They cook it with feelings. From personal experience. The feeling a female chef puts in the food places her way ahead of men chefs.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
