Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
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The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
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I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
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Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
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My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
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...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...
