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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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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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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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 find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
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Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.
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For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.
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Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.
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All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
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The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.
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Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.
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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
