Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
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When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it.
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I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
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No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.
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I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.
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When the media attention switches away from this story onto the next thing that happens in the world, the circumstances will still be there.
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I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
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At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.
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Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.
