Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the 'essential doctrines' of the Christian religion he does not even mention.
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The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
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Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
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Random events often come like the raisins in a box of cereal - in groups, streaks, and clusters. And although Fortune is fair in potentialities, she is not fair in outcomes.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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We will make a city hall that truly serves the people who live there.
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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
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Obviously, not the biggest guy in stature. Straight-line speed wasn't my forte either. But I play very fast because I know the game. I take proper angles and know all my assignments.
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I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.
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The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.
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I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
