Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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M&A guidelines need to be liberal.
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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.
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I have always been a reserved and conservative person.
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If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don't think of it as anything other than a dance, really. I don't see that person. I don't think of me being me.
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I'm running because we need change.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
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I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
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Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
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Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
