Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

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• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

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• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

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• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

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• When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

  

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• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.

  

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• Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

  

  Ada Yonath
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• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  

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• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

  

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• A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

  

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  • Think
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• The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

  

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• I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'

  

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• A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

  

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• An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.'

  

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• It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
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• When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

  

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• I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

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• His chutzpah and his imagination in the scams and stings he pulled off were so imaginative and so courageous. Amazing. I loved the fact that he could pull off all of those professions. In a way, he's sort of the anti-hero that you root for, even though you know he's going to have to pay a price and go to jail

  

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• Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Why
  • Old

• She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Magic
  • Naked