Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
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What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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Don't tell God they were only little globs of tissue. They were real live persons, being formed in their mother;s womb.
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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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‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
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I'm a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan.
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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
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I have to thank Leicester City Football Club. The adventure was amazing and will live with me forever.
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Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow
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I don't think anything lives up to what you envisioned.
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In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.
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Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.
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We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.
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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
