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 don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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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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I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, "Poor thing." I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.
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As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.
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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.
