Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
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It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
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I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.
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That morning I realized I would probably spend the rest of my professional life trying to unravel the mysteries of trauma. How do horrific experiences cause people to become hopelessly stuck in the past? What happens in people’s minds and brains that keeps them frozen, trapped in a place they desperately wish to escape?
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Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.
