Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
No one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first of those was a repetition of words that came before.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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You give before you get.
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Read each tweet about 95 times before you send it. Look at every Instagram post about 95 times before you send it.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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Netanyahu needs to stand before the Israeli public and say, 'I failed.'
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Change before you have to.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.
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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
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To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
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Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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No one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first of those was a repetition of words that came before.
