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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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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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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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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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 want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
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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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What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
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I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It's inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I've offended them, and that will be that.
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Our system, which we call democracy, at least leaves us the right from time to time to get rid of those who wish to govern us. And, if it's nowhere near Utopia, it is probably the best of all imperfect systems. All I can do is to advise you to be very cautious of those who claim to represent you and order you about for your own good.
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I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my career.
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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
