Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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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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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by 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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The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced.
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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 I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
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It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
Gail Devers -
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
