Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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At that stage my heart ruled my head'.
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Romeo take me somewhere, we can be alone.I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,It's a love story, baby, just say yes.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.
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Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.
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Trust is built with consistency.
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For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
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I feel like when there's more on the line and there's more risks, that means there's more reward.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
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Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
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I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
