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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There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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In the hour of its greatest success, Europe seems to have become empty inside, paralyzed by a life-threatening crisis to its health and dependent on transplants.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
