Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.

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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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Science is not gadgetry.
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I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.
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The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
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Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.
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I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.
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I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.
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Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
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My passion never fades out.
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I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.
Elliott Erwitt
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I've had a different kind of career on the periphery of show business. I've never been on any kind of corporate timetable whereby every six months I have to pop out a record like a pulping mill. I've called my own shots. When I get tired, I take time off.
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She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.
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I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.
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I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.
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Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.