Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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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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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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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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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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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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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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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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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.
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Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.
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Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
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He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.
