Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I don't like possessions.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
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But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
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Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.
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There's a handful of situations already in two games - some hits I don't need to take - and I'm taking them because I'm stringing out the play.
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I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
