Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I could not say what creeps and whispers through the branches and down the threaded Road, but I hear it, and I am not afraid.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Everybody grows but me.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.
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What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
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I could not say what creeps and whispers through the branches and down the threaded Road, but I hear it, and I am not afraid.
