Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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We must secure our borders and restore the rule of law, and more than anyone running, Ted Cruz has fought to make this nation secure while protecting our constitutional rights.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
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Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
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September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
