Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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Personal power gives you a sense of accomplishment. It enables you to live fully and zestfully. It provides you with a mature reason for liking yourself better. To state it another way, it is the mark of a healthy and well-adjusted individual to seek self-advancement by mastering his human relations.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.
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I was sixteen when suddenlyI wasn't that little girl you used to see.But your eyes still shined like pretty lights,And our daddies used to joke about the two of us.They never believed we'd really fall in love.And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyesAnd said oh my my my...
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.
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I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.
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Luckily, neither in my Tamil nor in my Telugu movies do I have roles that require exaggerated emoting.
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There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.
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I don't like to dump the dressing on top of the greens. Instead, I pour it against the side of the bowl - using only enough to glaze the leaves - then toss.
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I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.
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I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful-many more.
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We lost one of one of the great leaders of our lifetime on Monday. She was a true friend of America, and a champion of freedom. We're going to ensure that Margaret Thatcher’s legacy is honored by the United States government in a way commensurate with her enormous achievements.
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And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.
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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.
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The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
