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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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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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From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
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Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.
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Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.
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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
