Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
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Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
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Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils and these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot
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I'm constantly struggling. You know, the stories that I feel like I could cover, do the work that I want to do and being a mother. That's really where my struggle is - and being a wife and having a life - and for me it's really hard to find that balance. I'm always struggling to find that balance.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.
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It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you pitch to the national artist, I just don't write that way.
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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
