Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.
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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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Iraq may have been a preview of that, but it's still redeemable if we get out fast. In a war with Iran, we'll get dragged down for 20 or 30 years. The world will condemn us. We will lose our position in the world.
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Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.
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Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
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Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
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When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.
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Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.
