Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
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I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.
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Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
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I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.
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Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
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Dancing gives an innate physical awareness - it's physical training. Acting feels like the same medium but just with words.
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The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
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The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
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Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.
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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.
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My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.
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It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.
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The highest state is laughter.
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My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
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I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.
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Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?
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After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.
