Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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… the dogma that History is just 'one damned thing after another....'
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After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.
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I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
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I'm speechless! I am so happy to have won MTV Brand New!
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It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
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I've always thought of myself as so unsuited to be a frontman.
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
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I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
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Yeah, at first people were talking about me. But now everyone is wearing their clothes more fitted.
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West Bengal state Government has decided that non-criminal persons should not be kept in these kind of places and asked us to take care of them. They should live in an atmosphere of love. They need to be loved.
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A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.
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I like romanticizing romance.
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Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
