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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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 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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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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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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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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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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If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful amount of research for each case.
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Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.
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But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
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My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
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I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.
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The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.
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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
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My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.
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Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.
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There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.
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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.
