Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.
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They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?
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If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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My original perception of wrestling was not a very positive one. I didn't understand it at all, and I thought it was kind of silly and ridiculous. But as I got to know it, it was sort of like how people used to talk about musicals, to me, when I was younger.
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Laughing makes everything easier.
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You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.
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But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
