Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
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I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
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We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
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Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.
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The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.
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If there are spells, they have a right to weave.
