Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
When the aliens come, there’ll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one’ll be longer by light-years.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.
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The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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When the aliens come, there’ll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one’ll be longer by light-years.
