Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
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To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
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The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
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I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.
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It is a fairly serious thing that you're doing if you're writing about people who are still alive and who still have a role in public life. Sometimes you don't want to be reminded too much of the responsibility.
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I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
