Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
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We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen. It's all a matter of confidence and we have that now. We can still make the playoffs, it's all up to us.
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We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.
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It took a couple of hours to index the site. I knew it would help. When people look for products, especially nowadays, they go right to search.
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If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met.
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Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.
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Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
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My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
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I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
