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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The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
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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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The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.
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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
