Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
“Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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We have deep depth.
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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I'm a country girl at heart.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.
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Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.
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Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
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I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.
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The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.
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“Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.
