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 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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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 smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.
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I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.
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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.
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There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.
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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
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Whenever I'm with a woman I whisper softly into her ear, 'Will you touch my vagina...?' and she's like, 'What!?' and I'm like, 'That's what you're supposed to say.'
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
