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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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 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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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
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When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
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But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
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Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
