Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Pandemic, Pangaea, Panacea, Panoply. Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
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Subjugation is something which is an impedance on the ascent of man.
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Ben s'ode il ragionar, si vede il volto,Ma dentro il petto mal giudicar possi.
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I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.
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Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.
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I can't imagine a world where I wouldn't have the means of expression. When I talk to people who don't, it seems like they're really unhappy.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Pandemic, Pangaea, Panacea, Panoply. Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
