Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.
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I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.
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In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
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'Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?'
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You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
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I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
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Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.