Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Being beautiful isn't everything... Sometimes it's interesting to show how you feel on the inside on the outside, just through expressing yourself.
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The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
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I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
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It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
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A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it.
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All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.
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When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
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'The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?''God has not abandoned us utterly,' he said. 'Agnes is safe in his arms.'Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.
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Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches.
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Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.
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[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
