Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.
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Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.
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I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.
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Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
