Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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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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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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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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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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I've been using makeup since I was ten years old. I've learned a lot of do's and don'ts over the years. But one would definitely be that you should do your makeup for the occasion.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
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I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
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You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
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He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.
