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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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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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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You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.
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A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.
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I don't need a lot of space.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
