Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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I think of myself as an actor.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.
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As for my batting, the best part about it is I have never changed it. I have never changed my thinking, I have never changed my batting style.
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An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.
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I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony.
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Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
