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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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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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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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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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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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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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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The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
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I love animals and plants and sometimes even people.
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From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
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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.
