Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
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When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!
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I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
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Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.
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The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
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Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
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The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality-physical and emotional.
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Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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I love nature.
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Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile
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I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.
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It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.
