Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.
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Picasso.. ..the master.. ..being a master: 'I don't search, I find' a famous quote of Picasso, where he criticize the 'searching' artists ..the master, the mastery.. ..Producing, producing.. .He Picasso! only knows how to work, can’t do anything else. What lost souls!.. .The great risk is producing for its own sake. You must never force things. You just have to wait.
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If there are spells, they have a right to weave.
