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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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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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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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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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
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With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school.
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I believe a lot of players that start to think about money - 'Oh my goodness; I'm up for a new contract' - they don't have a great season because they're thinking about all these different things. Do your business on the field, and everything takes care of itself.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
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I admire Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool - these are the teams that are always there fighting.
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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I felt I could no longer take the roller-coaster of emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of despondency, it’s large stretches of boredom and inconvenience (p. 202).
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"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.
