Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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I dress for men.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
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Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.
