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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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 love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
