Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.
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I've never been a size 0.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
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“This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.”
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
