Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!
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People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.
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Persuasion is not a science but an art
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
