Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.
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The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the 'New York Times' or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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Humankind has mainly evolved in Africa, and we only left Africa very, very late in our evolutionary path. This means that there is very little genetic diversity among those who left Africa and very much genetic diversity among those who stayed.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
