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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I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.
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After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
