Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
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As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.
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Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.
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Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.1
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
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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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As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
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I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
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I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.
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Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.
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I love the magic of the studio.
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
