Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.
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It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
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I attribute my talent and my success to God, but I believe that the only way you can manifest what He has ordained for you is by being close to Him and by making it happen. But we have to stay close to Him in order to be an image of Him.
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Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
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I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.
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There're a lot of Republicans in the state of Texas that vote by mail, probably more than Democrats. We make it an incentive to make it easier for seniors to be able to vote. I do believe, from a personal experience, it discourages people from voting. It's the hassle of getting the stamp that is my biggest concern.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
