Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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I'm excited to join the StyleHaul community and bring new content to my fans.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I have been waiting for someone to come along and tap into that very real frustration that exists in a very large segment of the working-class Republican base. And no one had done it until Donald Trump. I very clearly saw a void, and I knew somebody would fill it. And the moment I knew he had filled it, I knew he would win the nomination.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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Don't let your dreams be dreams.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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I would love to be a mum if I'm blessed to have children. My wife and I have those plans.
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In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.
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Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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I was so afraid that I thought I was sick. But was I sick? Did I really have a murmur in my heart? No. The only problem has always been the disquiet of my mind. I can’t stop it, I always have to do, redo, cover, uncover, reinforce, and then suddenly undo, break.
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I remember I felt an extraordinary persuasion that I was being played with, that presently, when I was upon the very verge of safety, this mysterious death-as swift as the passage of light-would leap after me from the pit about the cylinder and strike me down.
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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
