Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
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There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
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The people finally know. They've been told about the mutants. And they hated the mutants. Of course, they hated them. They hated them because the existence of the mutants makes them second-class humans, because they are Neanderthalers suddenly invaded by a bow and arrow people.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
