Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
And that’s how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
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In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.
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If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.
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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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What's good for the financial industry probably isn't good for you.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
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And that’s how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
