Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
When the world loses its fucking mind and turns on you like a stupid feral cat you thought was tame, it happens. Everyone does the long, woozy whistle, and keel over.
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
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I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
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Who never doubted never half believedWhere doubt there truth is-'t is her shadow.
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New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.
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Quod defles, illud amasti.
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When the world loses its fucking mind and turns on you like a stupid feral cat you thought was tame, it happens. Everyone does the long, woozy whistle, and keel over.
