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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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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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It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
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When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.
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Der Umgang mit einem Egoisten ist darum so verderblich, weil die Notwehr uns allmählich zwingt, in seine Fehler zu verfallen.
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
