Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
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Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.
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Here come the planes. They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?
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Why should we do it? We have done so many songs, during such a long time. The fact that we had two divorces, and there was no meaning, I think, with getting together, again.
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The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.
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La tragedia del hombre es mayor cuando se la deja caer.
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'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first arc of 'Pretty Deadly,' and I was really surprised how much I was influenced by it.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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I always feel like music should be a universal language.
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Physical labor, manual labor - if you can stay close to those folks, there's always plenty to write about, 'cause their issues are real issues.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
