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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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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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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Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
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I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.
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It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.
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My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore me, and then he'd impersonate me.
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I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
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I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.
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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.
