Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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I can cure AIDS, and I will.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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I write what I write.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
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I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about it, bands don't do that anymore. Lady Gaga's songs are cheesy. The Beatles weren't cheesy. That's the hardest thing with music: to not be cheesy, but also be meaningful. That's the goal, I think.
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Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of the human is the light which can illuminate all life, the future and the past. Shall we not search for it?
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I really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.
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Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.
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I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
