Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
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In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.
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"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.
