Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.
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It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
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There are a whole bunch of structural and systemic factors we need to address in order to move away from the model in which women really are still dependent on men.
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Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.
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My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, that it's important to get out there and do things other than just your career.'
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It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
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Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.
