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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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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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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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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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'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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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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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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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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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
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I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.
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They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.
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After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.
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I've always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking and doing accents and things like that.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
