Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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In some lyceums they tell me that they have voted to exclude the subject of religion. But how do I know what their religion is, and when I am near to or far from it? I have walked into such an arena and done my best to make a clean breast of what religion I have experienced, and the audience never suspected what I was about.
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My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.
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In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There are very few people who could be imprisoned, kept away from their family and loved ones, and exit that same prison with such a powerful spirit of love and a desire for reconciliation.
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
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A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.
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You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
