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 wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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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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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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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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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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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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Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
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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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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
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I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.
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A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
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Can I take a rain check? Weekends are busy for me." He shrugged, his perma smile back in all its dimpled glory. "You'd probably figure out a way to nearly get killed, anyway.
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Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.
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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?
