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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From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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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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Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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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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To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honourable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions which beget further war.
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It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.
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Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.
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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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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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I have this theory that there are two kinds of people in the world, people who stop at a traffic accident and those that just drive by. If I see a traffic accident, I am going to stop. I do notice. I don't think that makes me a good or bad person, or anybody else better or worse.
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The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.
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What people mean by consultation is an imitation of what they see in America; pressure groups and lobby groups..It's an unthinking adoption of Western practices of development without any pruning and modification to suit our circumstances.
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Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in 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.
