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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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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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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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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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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I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
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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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I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class’s teacher, when the class got to Evangeline, kept echoing in my ears: 'We’re coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don’t be babies and start counting the pages.' I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.
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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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It's really fun to play a character that fights back and say what she means.
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My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.
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I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
